Over the last two decades, software product lines have been used successfully in industry
for building families of systems of related products, maximizing reuse, and exploiting their …

In the context of software development, models provide an abstract representation of a
software system or a part of it. In the software development process, they are primarily used …

Runtime adaptive systems are able to dynamically transform their internal structure, and
hence their behavior, in response to internal or external changes. Such transformations …

Software product lines (SPLs) and adaptive systems aim at variability to cope with changing
requirements. Variability can be described in terms of features, which are central for …

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 …

This paper mainly focuses on the monitoring of smart home remotely and providing security
when the user is away from the place. The system is SMS based and uses wireless …

Service robots act in open-ended, natural environments. Therefore, due to combinatorial
explosion of potential situations, it is not possible to foresee all eventualities in advance …

Due to the number of cloud providers, as well as the extensive collection of services, cloud
computing provides very flexible environments, where resources and services can be …

The ideas of smart home and home automation have been proposed for many years.
However, when discussing homes of the future, related studies have usually focused on …

Pervasive environments are socio-technical systems that support the daily routines of their
users in an invisible and unobtrusive manner. These systems are aware of and adapt to both …