Using agents to build a practical implementation of the INCA (intelligent community alarm) system

  • Authors:

  • M. Beer;W. Huang;A. Sixsmith

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computing and Management Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield S1 1WB, U.K.;Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, Peach Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, U.K.;Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L69 3BX, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Intelligent agents and their applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This architecture is intended to integrate a number of autonomous systems; home monitoring, community alarms, care management systems and emergency systems command and control systems using agent technology to build effective coordinated care systems. A range of different autonomous bodies provides such care, many of which have their own management information systems already in place. Since these systems do not only contain information relevant to community care, but also all the other activities of the agent, that it would be unwilling to make available to other parties, the actual management of community care has remained primarily outside the role of current systems.The development of an agent model is first described, followed by its realization using the ZEUS agent-building toolkit. While the toolkit approach allowed rapid development to take place, achieving a viable prototype in a very short time, various compromises had to be made with the original architecture. These are discussed, and the final demonstrator is described.