Design of a Virtual Community Infrastructure for Elderly Care
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The virtual organizations paradigm combined with adequate tools to support the cooperation of social care assistants, health care professionals, elderly people, and their relatives, constituting a “virtual community”, represent a promising approach to reduce the overwhelming care provision costs and to increase their quality. An architecture for a flexible platform based on adaptive mobile agents and information federation mechanisms is proposed and preliminary feasibility experiments are described.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002