Context-awareness is an essential component of systems developed in areas like Intelligent
Environments, Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In these …

This paper develops a new hybrid, open-source, cross-platform 3D smart home simulator,
OpenSHS, for dataset generation. OpenSHS offers an opportunity for researchers in the field …

We present DiaSuite, a tool suite that uses a software design approach to drive the
development process. DiaSuite focuses on a specific domain, namely Sense/Compute …

Activity recognition research relies heavily on test data to verify the modeling technique and
the performance of the activity recognition algorithm. But data from real deployments are …

Over the past decade, the world of Ambient Intelligence and smart environments has
brought us a wide variety of novel applications with potential for exhibiting sophisticated …

Despite much progress, develo** a pervasive computing application remains a challenge
because of a lack of conceptual frameworks and supporting tools. This challenge involves …

Human activity recognition has the potential to become a real enabler for ambient assisted
living technologies. Research on this area demands the execution of complex experiments …

Develo** pervasive computing applications is a difficult task because it requires to deal
with a wide range of issues: heterogeneous devices, entity distribution, entity coordination …

The challenging nature of error handling constantly escalates as a growing number of
environments consists of networked devices and software components. In these …

With the proliferation of wireless sensor network technologies, the context-aware
applications of smart environments have become more and more popular. However, time …