A multi-agent framework for coordination of intelligent assistive technologies

Proceedings of the 5th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Valente, Pedro ^a   Hossain, Shabbir ^a   Grønbæk, Bjørn ^a   Hallenborg, Kasper ^a   Reis, Luis Paulo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Activity coordination; Assistive multi agent systems; Eldercare; IntelliCare; Robot localization

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY COORDINATION; ASSISTIVE; ELDERCARE; INTELLICARE; ROBOT LOCALIZATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; TECHNOLOGY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77957849129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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