Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Nak-Young Chong, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni

• Publisher: Igi Global
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 771
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a multidisciplinary approach aimed at enriching physical environments with a network of distributed devices, such as sensors, actuators, and computational resources, in order to support humans in achieving their everyday activities.Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives covers the cutting-edge aspects of AMI applications, specifically those involving the effective design, realization, and implementation of a comprehensive AmI application. This pertinent publication targets researchers and practitioners in Ambient Intelligence, as well as those in ubiquitous and pervasive computing, artificial intelligence, sensor networks, knowledge representation, automated reasoning and learning, system and software engineering, and man-machine interfaces.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Copyright Page......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
Library of Congress......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 9
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 14
Forward......Page 25
Preface......Page 26
Ambient Intelligence as Cognitive Niche Enrichment......Page 34
Tracking Persons......Page 51
SensFloor® and NaviFloor®......Page 74
Embedding Context-Awareness into a Daily Object for Improved Information Awareness......Page 89
Image-Word Mapping......Page 111
A Survey on the use of Emotions, Mood, and Personality in Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments......Page 121
Logical Modeling of Emotions for Ambient Intelligence......Page 141
Incorporating Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments......Page 161
Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes......Page 198
System Support for Smart Spaces......Page 215
MEDUSA......Page 230
Home Service Engineering for Sensor Networks......Page 253
Dynamic Ambient Networks with Middleware......Page 272
Using Context Awareness for Self-Management in Pervasive Service Middleware......Page 281
An Ontology-Based Context-Aware Infrastructure for Smart Homes......Page 305
State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia......Page 333
Challenging Issues of Ambient Activity Recognition for Cognitive Assistance......Page 353
Logic-Based Approaches to Intention Recognition......Page 379
Inference of Human Intentions in Context Aware Systems......Page 409
Ambient Intelligence for Eldercare – the Nuts and Bolts......Page 425
Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation......Page 457
Recognising Human Behaviour in a Spatio-Temporal Context......Page 476
Prototyping Smart Assistance with Bayesian Autonomous Driver Models......Page 493
Context-Sensitive Spatial Interaction and Ambient Control......Page 546
Proactive Assistance in Ecologies of Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems A Constraint-Based Approach......Page 567
Self-organizing Mobile Sensor Network......Page 591
Pervasive Computing for Efficient Energy......Page 617
Ambient Intelligence and Immersive Geospatial Visual Analytics......Page 635
Possibilities of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments in Educational Institutions......Page 653
Opinion Mining and Information Retrieval......Page 673
Compilation of References......Page 686
About the Contributors......Page 745
Index......Page 763