Abstract'Wikification of GIS by the masses' is a phrase-term first coined by Kamel Boulos in
2005, two years earlier than Goodchild's term'Volunteered Geographic Information'. Six …

Nowadays, numerous journals and conferences have published articles related to context-
aware systems, indicating many researchers' interest. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to …

Research on sensor-based activity recognition has, recently, made significant progress and
is attracting growing attention in a number of disciplines and application domains. However …

Development of context-aware applications is inherently complex. These applications adapt
to changing context information: physical context, computational context, and user …

This paper presents an overview of the field of Intelligent Products. As Intelligent Products
have many facets, this paper is mainly focused on the concept behind Intelligent Products …

This chapter provides an accessible introduction for point processes, and especially Hawkes
processes, for modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time. We start by …

The Drift Table is an electronic coffee table that displays slowly moving aerial photography
controlled by the distribution of weight on its surface. It was designed to investigate our ideas …

With the increasing volumes of information gathered via patient monitoring systems,
physicians have been put on increasing pressure for making sophisticated analytical …

Urban sensing, participatory sensing, and user activity recognition can provide rich
contextual information for mobile applications such as social networking and location-based …

Location-based applications have become increasingly popular on smartphones over the
past years. The active use of these applications can however cause device battery drain …