An Argumentative Multi-Agent System for Ambient Assisted Living

An important research line in Intelligent Environments focuses on providing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems to foster an independent and autonomous living of elderly people. Such systems help to monitor the ongoing situations of these people and they can be also employed to detect unsafe situations. One of the main challenges these systems have to cope with is their observation of the world through incomplete, sometimes unreliable, sensing devices. This handicap leads to uncertain, inconsistent and incomplete perceptions of the world. This paper shows how argumentation, a well-established field in computer science, can help to disambiguate some of those confusing, sometimes even inconsistent, situations.