A self-healing distributed pervasive health system. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bromuri, Stefano; Schumacher, Michael I.; Stathis, Kostas
• Is Part Of: International journal of Web engineering and technology. Volume 8:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 177
• Page End: 196
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: pervasive health -- distributed agent environments -- self-organisation -- personal health systems -- PHSs -- distributed event-based systems -- self-healing; World Wide Web -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Application software -- Development -- Periodicals; 006.7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-1289

Abstract

In the context of pervasive healthcare systems there is a growing need of services that are constantly available to the patients accessing them. To address this issue, in this paper we present a distributed pervasive infrastructure that is capable of self-healing one or more of its parts when an external event causes a disruption of the service in the areas covered by the pervasive system. We utilise approaches from multi-agent systems (MASs) such as communication, coordination, planning and agent environments to create a distributed system whose emergent behaviour shows the capability to heal itself even if 50% of the system is not functioning due to external causes.