@inproceedings{0626cd60d97840d1a2b4342e87b5639e,
title = "Design of a virtual community infrastructure for elderly care",
abstract = "The virtual organizations paradigm combined with adequate tools to support the cooperation of social care assistants, health care professionals, elderly people, and their relatives, constituting a {"}virtual community{"}, represent a promising approach to reduce the overwhelming care provision costs and to increase their quality. An architecture for a flexible platform based on adaptive mobile agents and information federation mechanisms is proposed and preliminary feasibility experiments are described.",
author = "LM Camarinha-Matos and H Afsarmanesh",
year = "2002",
language = "English",
isbn = "1-4020-7020-9",
volume = "85",
series = "International Federation for Information Processing",
publisher = "Kluwer Academic Publishers",
pages = "439--450",
editor = "LM CamarinhaMatos",
booktitle = "COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS ECOSYSTEMS AND VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES",
address = "Netherlands",
note = "3rd Working Conference on Infrastructures for Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE 02) ; Conference date: 01-05-2002 Through 03-05-2002",
}