Title: COPD context-aware healthcare systems

Abstract

The separation of concerns as a conceptual paradigm aims to manage the complexity of the software systems by dividing them into different concerns and aspects. The benefits of this paradigm such as adaptability, reusability and maintenance, have been key drivers of its adoption and usability, particularly in healthcare systems. Developing a system with adaptive, flexible and maintainable architecture requires modularity because we must be able to design a flexible system that allows us to make decisions based on context of patients. In the emerging healthcare architectures, the fundamental characteristic of healthcare applications is their ability to adapt or to react according to the information of the patient’ context. In this talk, I will describe briefly three adaptation approaches, such as i) static (Aspect-oriented Programming), ii) Configuration (Spring), and iii) dynamic composition (OSGi) and parameters (MAPE). Then, I will illustrate dynamic approach to support adaptability of COPD diseases. In addition, I will give an overview and results of our context-aware healthcare systems.

Biography

Dr. Hamid Mcheick is a full professor in Computer Science department at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He has more than 20 years of experience in both academic and industrial area. He has done his PhD in Software Engineering and Distributed System in the University of Montreal, Canada. He is working on design and adaptation of distributed and smart software applications. He has supervised many post-doctorate, PhD, master and bachelor students. He has nine book chapters, more than 50 research papers in international journals and more than 130 research papers in international/national conference and workshop proceedings in his credit. Dr. Mcheick has given many keynote speeches and tutorials in his research area, particularly in Healthcare systems, Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing, Distributed Middleware Architectures, Software Connectors, Service Oriented Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, and Cloud Computing. Dr. Mcheick has gotten many grants from governments, industrials and academics. He is a chief in editor, chair, co-chair, reviewer, member in many organizations (such as IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier, Inderscience) around the world.