Author(s):
Carneiro, Davide 
; Novais, Paulo ; Costa, Ricardo ; Neves, José
Date: 2009
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/19034
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Ambient assisted living; e-Health; Case based reasoning; Machine learning; Simulation
Description
Series : Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5518 Quality on the welfare services in caring, and the trend to minimize the economical
and social-political costs that come with such practice, due to the population aging, are
paramount nowadays, i.e., health care reform has become the leading policy issue in all
latitudes. Indeed, the major thrust of all this research is the perception that escalating costs
make the current structure and financing of health care unsustainable. The issue of
sustainability is, therefore, the main subject of this paper. As a result, and in order to
accomplish this goal, we decided to look to the problem from an user perspective, i.e., the
system not only will provide different services, but will be also able to trace the ones more
frequently used and to learn about the context in which they happen. As a result, we will have a
system that will act and learn according to the preferences and habits of its users, and,
simultaneously, will adapt to the environment with the objective of reducing the cost of its
practices.
