Pervasive healthcare using self-healing agent environments

Abstract

Pervasive healthcare systems (PHSs) are required to be constantly available to the patients accessing them. To address this issue, in this paper we present an agent-based PHS that self-heals one or more of its parts when a service disruption happens. We propose a multi-agent system (MAS) approach that utilises coordination, planning and the notion of agent environment to create a distributed system capable to heal itself even if 50% of the system is not functioning due to external causes. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.