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ICOST
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Tracking People in Indoor Environments
Tracking the movement of people in indoor environments is useful for a variety of applications including elderly care, study of shopper behavior in shopping centers, security etc. ...
Candy Yiu, Suresh Singh
ICOST
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Context-Driven Programming Model for Pervasive Spaces
This paper defines a new, context-driven programming model for pervasive spaces. Existing models are prone to conflict, as it is hard to predict the outcome of interleaved actions ...
Hen-I Yang, Jeffrey King, Abdelsalam Helal, Erwin ...
ICOST
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Characterizing Safety of Integrated Services in Home Network System
This paper formalizes three kinds of safety to be satisfied by networked appliances and services in the emerging home network system (HNS). The local safety is defined by safety ...
Ben Yan, Masahide Nakamura, Lydie du Bousquet, Ken...
ICOST
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Peripheral Telecommunications: Supporting Distributed Awareness and Seamless Transitions to the Foreground
We consider two problems related to communication between geographically distributed family members. First, we examine the problem of supporting peripheral awareness, in order to i...
Yosuke Kinoe, Jeremy R. Cooperstock
ICOST
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Vision-Based Accident Management for Assisted Living
We consider the problem of assisting vulnerable people and their carers to reduce the occurrence, and concomitant consequences, of accidents in the home. A wireless sensor network ...
Hamid K. Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto, Chen Wu, Pa...