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Knowledge Representation for Cardiovascular Problems Applied to Mobile Monitoring of Elderly People

Authors:
Clauirton Sielbra
Manuella Silva
Fabio Silva
Andre Santos
Regina Miranda

Keywords: health monitoring; knowledge representation; mobile applications; cardiovascular.

Abstract:
Although the decline of physical conditions is a continuous process related to the ageing, elderly people generally desire to maintain their privacy and autonomy for as long as possible. The technology of mobile health monitoring is an important approach to be applied into this scenario, once such technology enables a prompt identification of health problems. One of the trends in this area is to implement levels of intelligence into monitoring systems, so that they can take decisions and act in a more optimized way. For that end, one of the approaches is to provide deduction resources to mobile devices, so that they can manipulate knowledge in form of rules. This work shows how we can implement a light deduction system using a free-context grammar, which is mainly used to codify experts’ knowledge. Our focus is on a grammar for cardiovascular problems, once this is the main kind of problem that affects elderly people.

Pages: 314 to 319

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-252-3

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013