Paper Info
Title
Policy-based Awareness Management (PAM): Case study of a wireless communication system at a hospital
Abstract
The present paper evaluates the use of software agents to identify relevance of information, called awareness. This evaluation is based on existing policies and scenarios in the context of wireless communication of a hospital in Norway. The study is to address the lack of literature for experimental studies on a method to employ software agents for awareness identification. Research in computer supported cooperative work indicates the significant contributions of software agents to assist individuals. There are bodies of work that show awareness provides the means for software agents in which effective cooperation can take place. In addition, the role of the methods to identify awareness is emphasized in the literature of both computer supported cooperative work and software agents. This paper explains a step-wise process, called Policy-based Awareness Management, which allows agents to use policies as a source to identify awareness and thus change their behaviors accordingly. The contribution of this method is based on the concepts proposed by the logic of general awareness. The present study applies Directory Enabled Networks-next generation as the policy structure for the method. The paper evaluates the process via its application to identify the relevance of information in wireless communication scenarios in a hospital. The present study conducts observations, interviews and discussions on the wireless communication system of the hospital to identify the different scenarios happening in the system. The paper presents a set of simulations on these scenarios and concludes that the method is effective and cost-efficient.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.024
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
show awareness,wireless communication scenario,wireless communication,policy-based awareness management,awareness,experimental study,case study,general awareness,software agent,awareness identification,intelligent agents,cooperative work,present study,present paper,policy,computer supported cooperative work,wireless communication system,cost efficiency,intelligent agent
Wireless communication systems,Intelligent agent,Wireless,Computer-supported cooperative work,Computer science,Directory,Software agent,Knowledge management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
84
10
The Journal of Systems & Software
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.49
31
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amir Talaei-Khoei15215.63
Terje Solvoll2103.31
Pradeep Ray31239.12
nandan parameshwaran4142.20