Title: Towards an observer/controller and ontology/rule-based approach for pervasive healthcare systems

Authors: Amina HameurLaine; Kenza Abdelaziz; Philippe Roose; Mohamed-Khireddine Kholladi

Addresses: MISC Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and its Applications, University of Constantine 2 – Abdelhamid Mehri, Constantine, 25000, Algeria ' Modeling and Engineering, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, 7500, France ' LIUPPA/UPPA, IUT de Bayonne et du Pays Basque, 2 Allée du Parc Montaury, Anglet, 64600, France ' Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of El Oued – Echahid Hamma Lakhdar, El Oued, 39000, Algeria

Abstract: This paper proposes a new design approach for U-Healthcare systems. Our approach consists in combining the generic observer/controller architecture of organic computing, ontologies and rule-based paradigms. This combination brings three significant benefits. First, it allows keeping the system highly supervised and controlled by the observer/controller. Secondly, it enables the system to reason upon useful contextual information gathered from different and heterogeneous entities, and deduce new situations that require adaptation of the system's behaviour. Finally, it enables the system to adapt its behaviour dynamically to the context change by reasoning about this context and selecting the appropriate service to a specific user.

Keywords: pervasive computing; U-Healthcare systems; context-awareness; context-aware systems; context modelling; context reasoning; ontologies; rules; observer/controller architecture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2017.087019

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2017 Vol.26 No.3, pp.137 - 156

Received: 15 Feb 2015
Accepted: 27 Apr 2015

Published online: 05 Oct 2017 *

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