Title: A self-healing distributed pervasive health system

Authors: Stefano Bromuri; Michael I. Schumacher; Kostas Stathis

Addresses: Business Information Systems Department, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Rue de Technopole 3, CH3960, Switzerland ' Business Information Systems Department, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Rue de Technopole 3, CH3960, Switzerland ' Computer Science Department, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Hill, Egham, TW20 0EX, UK

Abstract: In the context of pervasive healthcare systems there is a growing need of services that are constantly available to the patients accessing them. To address this issue, in this paper we present a distributed pervasive infrastructure that is capable of self-healing one or more of its parts when an external event causes a disruption of the service in the areas covered by the pervasive system. We utilise approaches from multi-agent systems (MASs) such as communication, coordination, planning and agent environments to create a distributed system whose emergent behaviour shows the capability to heal itself even if 50% of the system is not functioning due to external causes.

Keywords: pervasive healthcare; distributed agents; self-organisation; personal health systems; PHSs; distributed systems; event-based systems; self-healing; multi-agent systems; MAS; agent-based systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2013.055715

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 2013 Vol.8 No.2, pp.177 - 196

Published online: 31 Mar 2014 *

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