Section: Application Domains

Decision Making

Our group is involved in several applications of its more fundamental work on autonomous decision making and complex systems. Applications addressed include:

• Robotics, where the decision maker or agent is supported by a physical entity moving in the real world;

• Medicine or Personally Assisted Living, where the agent can be an analytic device recommending tests and/or treatments, or able to gather different sources of information (sensors for example) in order to help a final user, detecting for example anormal situation needing the rescue of a person (fall detection of elderly people, risk of hospitalization of a person suffering from chronic disease;

• Active Sensing, where decisions have to be taken in order to gather information on a system. This can be applied to many fields, like for example monitoring the integrity of airplanes wings or the behavior of people in public areas.