Software Engineering Research Group
Pervasive Healthcare Service Coordination
Computer Science Seminar:
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Speaker:
Dr Michael Schumacher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne (EPFL)
Abstract:
The field of pervasive E-Health Services is one of the fastest growing
application areas for intelligent mobile services. The Artificial
Intelligence Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne (EPFL) is developing an open infrastructure for business
application services across mobile and fixed networks. This project,
known as CASCOM (Context-Aware Business Application Service
Coordination in Mobile Computing Environments), is funded by the
European Commission's FP6 IST programme. CASCOM will deliver a
demonstrator for medical emergency assistance that accounts for the
on-the-fly coordination of pervasive health care services. The
architecture bases on intelligent agent-based peer-to-peer (IP2P)
environments that offer a means for pervasively providing and flexibly
co-ordinating ubiquitous business application services to the mobile
users in the dynamically changing contexts of open, large-scale, and
pervasive settings. After introducing the technologies used in this
context, especially semantic web services and IP2P environments, the
talk will present an abstract architecture for service delivery and
coordination. In this context, the role of distributed service
directories will especially be outlined as a means to efficiently
store, retrieve and compose web services.
