Rébecca Deneckère - Böcker

This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes “smart” in the context of digital technologies, develops a cross-field perspective, provides insights into various related disciplines, and offers illustrative examples of existing works in the field.To this end, it contains thirteen chapters divided into four parts: “Fundamentals of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering” begins with an exploration of the concept of Smart Life, defines a detailed taxonomy of smart applications and their evolution over time, and, finally, delivers a comprehensive review of social, behavioral, and ethical considerations. Next, “Conceptual Contributions to Smart Life” explores innovative ideas in smart environment, smart home, smart city, and smart tourism. Subsequently, “Smart Life Applications” examines real-world implementations and their impact on various domains including viticulture, elevators, and overtourism. Eventually, “Experience Reports of Smart Life Applications” presents smart city experiences of the cities of Leuven and Monserrate respectively.Written for researchers and industrial professionals from a very large set of fields, this book explores the fascinating domain of smart technologies and their impact on our daily lives and brings together the works around societal, methodological, and technological aspects of Smart Life.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2025, which took place in Riga, Latvia, in September 2025. The central theme of BIR 2025 was "Bridging Knowledge, Process, and Systems for Responsible Digital Transformation".The 18 full papers and 5 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Intelligent Decision-Making and Data Management; Human Factors and Well-Being in Digital Systems; Enterprise Architecture; Modeling and Governing Adaptive Organizations; Process Mining and Digital Twin Perspectives; LLM and Generative AI in Modeling and Engineering; Smart Life; and Structuring Security for Responsible Digital Systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Method Engineering, ME 2011, held in Paris, France, in April 2011. The 13 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented together with the abstracts of two keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on situated method engineering, method engineering foundations, customized methods, tools for method engineering, new trends to build methods, and method engineering services.