Coalition-based Multi-agent Approach for Implementing Ethics: an Assistive Application Case-Study

— This paper presents an adaptive multi-agent approach based on coalitions for ambient assisted living applications. Adaptation is crucial because the challenge is to deal with a dynamic environment in order to provide adequate services to an elderly or a sick person at home. Moreover, it is necessary to take into account constraints such as degree of urgency of the service, intrusion level of the system and person’s privacy. Ethical dimension is then important for the acceptability of such applications. The evolution of the degree of intrusion based on the degree of urgency and the availability of the communication devices of the ambient environment are particularly targeted by considering ethical dimension. The results show that not only ethics consideration allows better acceptability of the system, but also the performances are improved.