Situation awareness is the cognitive capability of human and artificial agents to perceive,
understand and predict the status of the situation in an environment. Situation awareness …

New healthcare technologies are emerging with the increasing age of the society, where the
development of smart homes for monitoring the elders' activities is in the center of them …

The study proposes a holistic approach to consumer service systems and “collective
intelligence” by investigating the Collective Knowledge Systems (CKSs) and the Social …

Effective access control techniques are in demand, as electronically assisted healthcare
services require the patient's sensitive health records. In emergency situations, where the …

Earthquake is a disastrous natural hazard that threatens numerous cities worldwide. The
interval between the foreshock and the main event can sometimes last several minutes …

Nowadays, large shop** malls provide tools to help and boost customers to buy products.
Some of these tools melt down digital operations with physical ones executed by customers …

Information systems that build on sensor networks often process data produced by
measuring physical properties. These data can serve in the acquisition of knowledge for real …

The emergence of automated environments to add intelligence to the decision making
process on real world problems with multiple and conflicting objectives is an actual issue. In …

A recurrent problem in applications that build on environmental sensor networks is that of
sensor data organization and interpretation. Organization focuses on, for instance, resolving …

Advances in situational awareness technology have led to the creation of increasingly
sophisticated tools across different application domains, often involving non-textual, highly …