TY - GEN
T1 - Matching System for Animal-Assisted Therapy Based on the Levenshtein and Gale-Shapley Algorithms
AU - Gutiérrez-Rondón, Giuliana
AU - Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, Juan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This current research is based on the implementation of an algorithm that assigns pets, cats, or dogs to persons with depressive disorders such as low self-esteem. We found that even though different institutions have made the assignments of pets to patients, we were not able to find one that uses an IT tool for this task. Because of this situation, we decided to adapt to the well-known Gale-Shapley algorithm that has been used successfully in different situations in which it needs a perfect match between two parties. The results obtained have been validated by experts in the field of animal and person psychology. Because the Gale-Shapley algorithm needs a preference array between the parts involved and due that an animal cannot establish this set of preferences, we aimed to use a string similarity-based algorithm for obtaining preferences arrays based on the behavioral traits of an animal or person.
AB - This current research is based on the implementation of an algorithm that assigns pets, cats, or dogs to persons with depressive disorders such as low self-esteem. We found that even though different institutions have made the assignments of pets to patients, we were not able to find one that uses an IT tool for this task. Because of this situation, we decided to adapt to the well-known Gale-Shapley algorithm that has been used successfully in different situations in which it needs a perfect match between two parties. The results obtained have been validated by experts in the field of animal and person psychology. Because the Gale-Shapley algorithm needs a preference array between the parts involved and due that an animal cannot establish this set of preferences, we aimed to use a string similarity-based algorithm for obtaining preferences arrays based on the behavioral traits of an animal or person.
KW - Animals assisted therapy
KW - Stable matching
KW - String similarity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096503888&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-63092-8_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-63092-8_18
M3 - Articulo (Contribución a conferencia)
AN - SCOPUS:85096503888
SN - 9783030630911
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 262
EP - 280
BT - Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference, FTC 2020, Volume 3
A2 - Arai, Kohei
A2 - Kapoor, Supriya
A2 - Bhatia, Rahul
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 5 November 2020 through 6 November 2020
ER -