A model-driven approach for constructing ambient assisted-living multi-agent systems customized for Parkinson patients

García-Magariño, I. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Palacios-Navarro, G. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: The Parkinson disease affects some people, especially in the last years of their lives. Ambient assisted living systems can support them, especially in the middle stages of the disease. However, these systems usually need to be customized for each Parkinson patient. In this context, the current work follows the model-driven engineering principles to achieve this customized development. It represents each patient with a model. This is transformed into an agent-based model, from which a skeleton of programming code is generated. A case study illustrates this approach. Moreover, 24 engineers expert in model-driven engineering, multi-agent systems and/or health experienced the current approach alongside the three most similar works, by implementing actual systems. Some of these systems were tested by Parkinson patients. The results showed that (1) the current approach reduced the development time, (2) the developed system satisfied a higher percentage of the requirements established for certain Parkinson patients, (3) the usability increased, (4) the performance of the systems improved taking response time into account, and (5) the developers considered that the underlying metamodel is more appropriate for the current goal.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.09.014

Año: 2016

Publicado en: JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 111 (2016), 34-48
ISSN: 0164-1212

Factor impacto JCR: 2.444 (2016)

Categ. JCR: COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS rank: 23 / 104 = 0.221 (2016) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING rank: 22 / 106 = 0.208 (2016) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.616 - Hardware and Architecture (Q1) - Software (Q2) - Information Systems (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/TIN2011-28335-C02-01

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Tecnología Electrónica (Dpto. Ingeniería Electrón.Com.)
Área (Departamento): Área Lenguajes y Sistemas Inf. (Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms.)