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This architecture is intended to integrate a number of autonomous systems; home monitoring, community alarms, care management systems and emergency systems command and control systems using agent technology to build effective coordinated care systems. A range of different autonomous bodies provides such care, many of which have their own management information systems already in place. Since these systems do not only contain information relevant to community care, but also all the other activities of the agent, that it would be unwilling to make available to other parties, the actual management of community care has remained primarily outside the role of current systems.
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Beer, M., Huang, W., Sixsmith, A. (2002). Using Agents to Build a Practical Implementation of the INCA (Intelligent Community Alarm) System. In: Jain, L.C., Chen, Z., Ichalkaranje, N. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Their Applications. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 98. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1786-7_10
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