Standby power is the energy consumed by appliances when they are not performing their main functions or when they are switched off. In this paper, we propose a Host-Agent based sta...
This paper addresses the problem of establishing collaboration between devices in a home environment, even when no previous knowledge is known or stored on the devices. It focuses...
While camcorders have become a commodity home appliance, few watch the recorded videos or share them with friends and relatives due to the difficulty of turning the raw footage in...
This paper presents a framework to specify and verify integrated services of a home network system (HNS). We first develop a modeling language to describe the HNS and the integra...
: This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm applicable to the task of device adjustment in smart appliances ensembles. The algorithm requires very little environmental knowledg...