—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
Smart homes have a user centered design that makes human activity as the most important type of context to adapt the environment according to people's needs. Sensor systems th...
Atif Manzoor, Claudia Villalonga, Alberto Calatron...
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experie...
Models for sequential decision making under uncertainty (e.g., Markov decision processes,or MDPs) have beenstudied in operations research for decades. The recent incorporation of ...
Increase of future appliances at home environment causes confusion with less computer-skilled users. Consequently, embedded-hardware could prevent us from recognizing all of them ...