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Ambient Intelligence, Wireless Networking, and Ubiquitous Computingby Athanasios Vasilakos
Artech House 2006; US$ 149.00Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is the next wave in computing and communications technology. Nano-sized sensors and computers, wireless networks, and intelligent software are being integrated to create AmI environments. One such AmI environment is an intelligent home that can sense changes in a house and its occupants to instantly track objects or call 911 in case of a fall or heart attack. Another AmI environment is an intelligent airport to effortlessly guide a traveler to a connecting flight, through customs, or to a waiting car service. This cutting-edge reference explains ways to plan for AmI service deployment, develop AmI software and networks, and further advance AmI capabilities. It looks at such nuts-and-bolts issues as security, architecture,... more...
AmIwareby Satyen Mukherjee; Emile Aarts; Raf Roovers
Springer 2006; US$ 219.00Ambient Intelligence is a multidisciplinary concept which integrates technology into people environment in such a way that it improves their daily lives in terms of well-being, creativity, and productivity. This book presents a number of key topics on hardware developments, thus providing an insight into the physical basis of ambient intelligence. more...
True Visionsby E.H.L. Aarts; J.L. Encarnação
Springer 2006; US$ 189.00Explains how the devices making up the AI world operate collectively using information and intelligence hidden in the wireless network connecting them. This book addresses key AI components such as smart materials and textiles, system architecture, mobile computing, broadband communication, and issues of human-environment interactions. more...
Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligenceby David Wright; Serge Gutwirth; Michael Friedewald; Elena Vildjiounaite; Yves Punie
Springer 2008; US$ 79.95Aims to warn policy-makers, industry, academia, civil society organisations, the media and the public about the threats and vulnerabilities facing our privacy, identity, trust, security and inclusion in the rapidly approaching world of ambient intelligence (AmI). more...
Developing Ambient Intelligenceby Antonio Mana Gomez; Carsten Rudolph
Springer 2008; US$ 99.00At the time of the introduction of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) concept many scenarios where considered to be visionary or even science fiction. Enabled by current technology, many aspects of these scenarios are slowly but inexorably becoming true. However, we are still facing important challenges that need further investments in research and industrialization. Current software engineering techniques and tools are not prepared to deal with the development of applications for what we could call AmI ecosystems, lacking a fixed architecture, controlled limits and even owners. The comfortable boundaries of static architectures and well-defined limits and owners are not existent in these AmI ecosystems. In its second year AmI.d again shows the... more...
Intelligent Environmentsby Dorothy Monekosso; Paolo Remagnino; Yoshinori Kuno
Springer 2008; US$ 99.00This innovative book discusses engineering solutions for the automatic understanding of a complex scene via multi-modal arrays of sensors. It focuses on research dealing with robotic platforms that augment an environment. In particular, it considers the study of information fusion methods, the study of algorithms for ontology learning from tabula rasa information and the integration of new types of sensors into existing networks of heterogeneous sensors. It also concentrates on the development and deployment of fielded solutions in public spaces and the evaluation of systems. Intelligent Environments explores artificial intelligence techniques, essential for implementing AmI systems. Applications including intelligent environments (smart homes,... more...
Ambient Intelligence Perspectivesby P. Mikulecký; T. Li?ková; P. Cech
IOS Press 2008; US$ 145.00Contains selected papers from the first international Ambient Intelligence Forum - AmIF 2008 in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. more...
Security and Dependability for Ambient Intelligenceby George Spanoudakis; Antonio Mana Gomez; Kokolakis Spyros
Springer 2009; US$ 129.00The term Ambient Intelligence identifies an ambitious vision for pushing technological developments, that enables heterogeneous networked systems and devices with computing capabilities. This title covers the foundations of ambient systems, the problems that their dynamic and heterogeneous nature poses to security and dependability and solutions. more...
Advanced Intelligent Environmentsby Achilles D. Kameas; Victor Callagan; Hani Hagras; Michael Weber; Wolfgang Minker
Springer 2009; US$ 129.00Multimodal spoken language dialogue interaction is a key factor in ensuring natural interaction and therefore of particular interest for advanced intelligent environments. This book covers the key topics in the field of intelligent environments from a variety of leading researchers. more...
E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countriesby Adolfo Villafiorita; Saint-Paul Regis; Alessandro Zorer
Springer 2010; US$ 72.00Constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2009, held in Maputo, Mozambique, in December 2009. more...









