As we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of sensors deployed
around the world is growing at a rapid pace. Market research has shown a significant growth …

Pervasive systems must offer an open, extensible, and evolving portfolio of services which
integrate sensor data from a diverse range of sources. The core challenge is to provide …

Internet of Things (IoT) has been growing rapidly due to recent advancements in
communications and sensor technologies. Meanwhile, with this revolutionary transformation …

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

Human activity recognition is a challenging problem for context-aware systems and
applications. Research in this field has mainly adopted techniques based on supervised …

Gait is a biometric trait that can allow user authentication, though it is classified as a “soft”
one due to a certain lack in permanence and to sensibility to specific conditions. The earliest …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the adoption of ontologies and
ontological reasoning to automatically recognize complex context data such as human …

Activity recognition is considered as an important task in many applications, particularly in
healthcare services. Among these applications include medical diagnostic, monitoring of …

Smart home environments have a significant potential to provide for long-term monitoring of
users with special needs in order to promote the possibility to age at home. Such …

New models and technological advances are driving the digital transformation of healthcare
systems. Ontologies and Semantic Web have been recognized among the most valuable …