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What Do Homecare Provider Stories Tell Us about Dynamicity
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Zarghami, Alireza Eslami, Mohammed Zarifi Sinderen, Marten Van |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Introduction: The growth of the ageing population in industrialized countries is expected to become a serious problem in the near future. A promising solution to this problem is to improve healthcare systems and to support independent living for elderly by way of homecare service provisioning [1]. An important challenge to realize homecare service provisioning is to find effective ways to handle the dynamicity demands of the homecare domain. These demands imply that the provided services must be adapted based on a) frequently occurring contextual changes like a care-receiver’s location and occupation, or b) slowly developing changes in a care-receiver’s requirements like his/her extent of impairment [2]. To address these changes, the provisioning system should be capable of adapting the homecare services while they are being executed. At the same time, the execution of homecare services should be constrained by a service plan which is created by care-givers possibly through a separate system. The purpose of the service plan is to specify at a high level of abstraction how to address the needs of the care-receiver (in compliance with applicable medical protocols). The service plan (especially its completeness and accuracy) plays an important role in the success of the provisioning system to deal with the dynamicity. In our definition, a service plan refers to one or more service building blocks (SBBs) and it describes the configuration and orchestration of instances of these SBBs as well as decision rules with respect to run-time behaviour. The SBBs, like a medicine dispenser or reminder, are the smallest manageable services which cannot be broken down further into smaller services from the care-givers point of view. Configuration parameters allow the care-givers to specify different aspects of the SBBs such as service operations and user interface modalities. Orchestration schemes determine how SBBs are composed. Decision rules determine the possible adaptation at runtime, based on evaluation of the rules with runtime data (e.g., context values). For example, decision rules can be used to choose between alternative operations of one SBB or between alternative data and control flows among the SBBs, based on specific runtime circumstance. We believe that enhancing the service plan with decision rules can address the dynamicity in the homecare domain, especially with respect to existing rule-based and careflow medical protocols [3]. |
| Starting Page | 154 |
| Ending Page | 155 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/21134/01/3_zarghami_homcare_dynamicty.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~zarifim/Documents/zarghami_homcare_dynamicty.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~zarifim/Documents/zarghami_homcare_dynamicty.pdf |
| Journal | REFSQ 2011 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
