Affiliations: Department of Business Information Systems, School of
Electronics and Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK | Department of Electronic, Network & Computer
Engineering, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of
Westminster, London, UK
Abstract: Pervasive computing (PerC) is leading the way in a fast-growing
trend of integrating transparently physical heterogeneous computational devices
into our private and professional lives. The ubiquity of these devices and
advances in developing software solutions in PerC across domains, have raised
hopes for the creation of true wide-spread pervasive computing environments
(PCE). In this paper we explore the possibility of applying semantics of PCEs
in the healthcare domain, and in Self Care Homes (SeCH) in particular, in order
to define and comment on its computationally significant semantics. Our aim is
to illustrate that we can manipulate the computationally significant semantics
of SeCH through OWL/SWRL enabled ontologies, as candidate technologies for
achieving effective and automated decision making in SeCH. The possibility of
reasoning upon OWL/SWRL enabled concepts and creating computations from them,
and enables the delivery of healthcare services to SeCH residents. They are
automatically supported by software applications generated from the Assistive
Self Care Systems (ASeCS) software architecture, which hosts our OWL/SWRL
enabled ontology and its reasoning.
Keywords: pervasive healthcare, OWL/SWRL enabled ontology, reasoning, remote patient care
