O'Grady, Michael J.

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  • Publication
    Towards evolutionary ambient assisted living systems
    (Springer, 2010-03)
    O'Grady, Michael J. 
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    Muldoon, Conor 
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    Dragone, Mauro 
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    Tynan, Richard 
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    O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.) 
    Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is advocated as technological solutions that will enable the elderly population maintain their independence for a longer time than would otherwise be the case. Though the facts motivating the need for AAL are indisputable, the inherently heterogeneous nature and requirements of the elderly population raise significant difficulties. One particular challenge is that of designing AAL systems that can evolve to meet the requirements of individuals as their needs and circumstances change. This demands the availability of an adaptive, open, scalable software platform that incorporates a select combination of autonomic and intelligent techniques. Given that the first generation of AAL systems will be deployed in the near future, it is incumbent on designers to factor this need for evolution and adaptivity in their designs and implementations. Thus this paper explores AAL from a number of prospective and considers an agent-based middleware approach to realising an architecture for evolutionary AAL.
      5889Scopus© Citations 68
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    How Smart Is Your City?
    (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012-03-30)
    O'Grady, Michael J. 
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    O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.) 
    The idea of ambient intelligence implies an intrinsic link between individuals and their environment, enabling individuals to access and interact with computing artifacts in ways that are intuitive and do not disrupt everyday activities. Given the many different environments encountered as part of everyday life—within the home (1) as well as beyond it—enabling such interaction is a formidable technological challenge. The reward may be an environment that is safer, uses less energy, and responds to the needs of all individuals (see the figure). Recent advances in embedded systems, robotics, and sensor technology suggest that ambient intelligence may indeed be realized, particularly if crucial privacy and security concerns are addressed.
      1722Scopus© Citations 94
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    Embedded agents: a paradigm for mobile services
    (Inderscience, 2006-01)
    O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.) 
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    O'Grady, Michael J. 
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    Muldoon, Conor 
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    Bradley, John F. 
    Mobile computing radically challenges some of the traditional assumptions associated with the software development lifecycle, and end-user behaviour. Successfully meeting these challenges is of fundamental importance if mobile computing is to fulfil its considerable potential. One approach to this concerns the prudent and selective adoption of intelligent techniques. However, reconciling the conflicting demands of deploying sophisticated resource-intensive computational algorithms on devices that are inherently resource-poor raises significant difficulties. Recent developments in intelligent agent technologies offer one viable approach to resolving this conflict. This paper explores the state-of-the-art in mobile computing and intelligent agents. In particular, issues pertinent to the deployment of agents on mobile devices are considered in detail. To illuminate this discussion, the implementation of one such framework is described
      626Scopus© Citations 26
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    The Ambient Digital Library
    (IGI Global, 2012)
    O'Grady, Michael J. 
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    O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.) 
    Conventional digital libraries increasingly support remote access from mobile devices. However, the archetypical mobile user differs from the conventional user in a number of aspects; of these the most important is context. Synonymous with mobile computing is the context concept, and factoring the availability of select contextual elements into the design of digital libraries offers significant opportunities for adapting and personalising services for the mobile computing community. This paper proposes the Ambient Digital Library as a construct for integrating digital content, contextual parameters and user models. In this way, a digital library may be made more accessible to a broader category of mobile user.
      367Scopus© Citations 3
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    Exploiting multi-agent systems in realizing adaptivity in the mobile tourist domain
    (IOS Press, 2009-04)
    O'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.) 
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    O'Grady, Michael J. 
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    Poslad, Stefan 
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    Titkov, Leonid 
    Ongoing developments in an array of mobile computing technologies have rendered the deployment of intelligent agents feasible on lightweight computational devices such as mobile phones. This development extends the Multi-Agent System (MAS) paradigm to a new frontier, opening up significant avenues of research in intelligent mobile computing, amongst others. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, the practical realization of adaptivity in two classic agent-based mobile computing applications is considered. Though focusing on the tourist domain, it is contended that the approach adopted is generalisable to a broad category of mobile computing applications.
      1311Scopus© Citations 4