Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm in information technology aimed at
empowering people's capabilities by means of digital environments that are sensitive …

It has been widely pointed out that classical ontology is not sufficient to deal with imprecise
and vague knowledge for some real-world applications like personal diabetic-diet …

The significance that ambient intelligence (AmI) has acquired in recent years requires the
development of innovative solutions. In this sense, the development of AmI-based systems …

Touchless fingerprint recognition systems do not require contact of the finger with any
acquisition surface and thus provide an increased level of hygiene, usability, and user …

Many different real-world applications with a high-level of uncertainty proved the good
performance of the type-2 fuzzy sets (T2 FSs). Balanced diet means that the intake of each …

Elderly support ambient assisted living environments are focal in healthcare computing.
Critical to their implementation is transparent integration of diverse hardware and its …

Nowadays most people can get enough energy to maintain one‐day activity, while few
people know whether they eat healthily or not. It is quite important to analyze nutritional facts …

Ambient intelligence has advanced significantly during the last few years. The incorporation
of image processing and artificial intelligence techniques have opened the possibility for …

Abstract Design criteria for distributed and pervasive intelligent systems, such as Multi Agent
Systems (MAS), are generally led by the functional decomposition of the given application …

With the increasing popularity of XML for data representations, there is a lot of interest in
searching XML data. Due to the structural heterogeneity and textual content's diversity of …