Juan Carlos Augusto – författare

Our homes anticipate when we want to wake up. Our computers predict what music we want to buy. Our cars adapt to the way we drive. In today’s world, even washing machines, rice cookers and toys have the capability of autonomous decision-making. As we grow accustomed to computing power embedded in our surroundings, it becomes clear that these ‘smart environments’, with a number of devices controlled by a coordinating system capable of ‘ambient intelligence’, will play an ever larger role in our lives. This handbook provides readers with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage in what is a key technological field. . Systematically dealing with each aspect of ambient intelligence and smart environments, the text covers everything, from visual information capture and human/computer interaction to multi-agent systems, network use of sensor data, and building more rationality into artificial systems. The book also details a wide range of applications, examines case studies of recent major projects from around the world, and analyzes both the likely impact of the technology on our lives, and its ethical implications.With a wide variety of separate disciplines all conducting research relevant to this field, this handbook encourages collaboration between disparate researchers by setting out the fundamental concepts from each area that are relevant to ambient intelligence and smart environments, providing a fertile soil in which ground-breaking new work candevelop.

Humans like tools, and since health is one of humanity’s perpetual preoccupations, humans particularly like tools related to health. In recent decades, the digital revolution has undoubtedly been the most important development in this area. Computing systems initially introduced to make administration more efficient were soon being used to help with the diagnostic process, to find more effective treatments and to support surgical procedures, and much more. This work, Handbook on Smart Health, examines a wide range of examples of the technology being developed everywhere on our planet which concerns our health. It includes content which addresses different levels of the complex systems used to deliver health, beginning with the more general background of the area, and goes on to cover different strategies of delivery, the diverse infrastructure – hardware and software, algorithms and applications – and the interaction between technology and society. Given the gradual continuous increase in control, which brings both more benefits for our health and higher risks if something goes wrong, this use of technology is becoming increasingly controversial, and alongside the positive uses of digital tools in healthcare there have also been some catastrophic failures. All this is compounded by a legal structure constantly trying to play catch-up with innovation. The book addresses all these topics from various angles, providing a holistic update for a wide range of professionals, innovators and decision-makers, and documenting the foundation upon which more innovation can be created. This publication provides an invaluable guide to all aspects of smart health, and will be of interest to healthcare professionals and organizations working in healthcare innovation everywhere.

This Handbook presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the state-of-the-art on Smart Cities. It provides the reader with an authoritative, exhaustive one-stop reference on how the field has evolved and where the current and future challenges lie. From the foundations to the many overlapping dimensions (human, energy, technology, data, institutions, ethics etc.), each chapter is written by international experts and amply illustrated with figures and tables with an emphasis on current research.The Handbook is an invaluable desk reference for researchers in a wide variety of fields, not only smart cities specialists but also by scientists and policy-makers in related disciplines that are deeply influenced by the emergence of intelligent cities. It should also serve as a key resource for graduate students and young researchers entering the area, and for instructors who teach courses on these subjects. The handbook is also of interest to industry and business innovators.

The 15 revised full papers, 4 papers from the landscape track, 3 papers from the doctoral colloquium and 6 demo and poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and are presented with 6 workshop descriptions.

The area of smart homes is fast developing as an emergent area which attracts the synergy of several areas of science. This volume offers a collection of contributions addressing how artificial intelligence (AI), one of the core areas of computer science, can bring the growing area of smart homes to a higher level of functionality where homes can truly realize the long standing dream of proactively helping their inhabitants in an intelligent way.After an introductory section to describe a smart home scenario and to provide some basic terminology, the following 9 sections turn special attention to a particular exemplar application scenario (provision of healthcare and safety related services to increase the quality of life) exploring the application of specific areas of AI to this scenario.

ISAmI is the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, aiming to bring together researchers from various disciplines that constitute the scientific field of Ambient Intelligence to present and discuss the latest results, new ideas, projects and lessons obtained from recent experiences in building AmI systems. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted in this first edition. These papers reports on innovative results and advances achieved recently in this area.