Federated management of information for TeleCARE

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Victor Guevara-Masis, L.O. Hertzberger

2004

Abstract

Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and independence of its involved actors, the critical data that is handled about individuals, and the variety of hardware/software resources supporting the elderly care environment. A federated information management system coping with these requirements is designed and integrated as a core component of a mobile agent-based infrastructure, to support collaborative networks for elderly care. Functionalities for: federated schema management, federated query processing, HW/SW resource management, specification and enforcement of visibility/access rights to data and resources, and an ontology-based automatic schema generation facility are introduced, and their implementation details are briefly discussed.

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in Harvard Style

Afsarmanesh H., Guevara-Masis V. and Hertzberger L. (2004). Federated management of information for TeleCARE . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care - Volume 1: TELECARE, (ICEIS 2004) ISBN 972-8865-10-4, pages 49-62. DOI: 10.5220/0002683800490062


in Bibtex Style

@conference{telecare04,
author={Hamideh Afsarmanesh and Victor Guevara-Masis and L.O. Hertzberger},
title={Federated management of information for TeleCARE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care - Volume 1: TELECARE, (ICEIS 2004)},
year={2004},
pages={49-62},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002683800490062},
isbn={972-8865-10-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Tele-Care and Collaborative Virtual Communities in Elderly Care - Volume 1: TELECARE, (ICEIS 2004)
TI - Federated management of information for TeleCARE
SN - 972-8865-10-4
AU - Afsarmanesh H.
AU - Guevara-Masis V.
AU - Hertzberger L.
PY - 2004
SP - 49
EP - 62
DO - 10.5220/0002683800490062