A domain-specific software architecture for a class of intelligent patient monitoring agents

provided input and comments on earlier drafts of the paper. The Guardian project has benefitted from the contributions of many other present and past project members, including Abstract We present a domain-specific software architecture (DSSA) that supports development of a variety of intelligent patient monitoring (IPM) agents through component reuse and reconfiguration. Specifically, the IPM DSSA comprises: (a) a reference architecture that supports the shared functional requirements of IPM agents and provides a framework for configuring diverse application-specific sets of components; (b) principles for decomposing IPM expertise into highly reusable components, along with a growing library of such components; and (c) an interactive application configuration tool that helps a user to select application-relevant components from the library and automatically configures selected components within the architecture. We demonstrate the efficacy of the IPM DSSA with results from the Guardian project, a series of experimental agents for monitoring intensive care patients.