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Computer science and ambient intelligence /

This book focuses on ambient intelligence and addresses various issues related to data management, networking and HCI in this context. Taking a holistic view, it covers various levels of abstraction, ranging from fundamental to advanced concepts and brings together the contributions of various speci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Calvary, Gaëlle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hoboken, N.J. : ISTE ; Wiley, 2013.
Colección:ISTE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Ambient Intelligence: Science or Fad? / James L. Crowley
  • 1.1. Ambient intelligence: still young at 20 years
  • 1.2. step forward in the evolution of informatics
  • 1.2.1. Fifty years ago: the computer as an isolated critical resource
  • 1.2.2. Thirty years ago: the user at the center of design
  • 1.2.3. past decade: combining physical, social, and digital worlds
  • 1.3. Extreme challenges
  • 1.3.1. Multi-scale
  • 1.3.2. Heterogeneity
  • 1.3.3. Dynamic adaptation
  • 1.4. Conclusion
  • 1.5. Bibliography
  • ch. 2 Thinking about Ethics / Anne-Marie Benoit
  • 2.1. Ethics and fundamental rights
  • 2.2. Ethics and values
  • 2.3. Ethics and future perspectives
  • 2.4. Bibliography
  • ch. 3 Sensor Networks / David Simplot-Ryl
  • 3.1. MAC layers for wireless sensor networks
  • 3.1.1. Challenges atMAClevel
  • 3.1.2. Energy consumption
  • 3.1.3. Parameters for evaluating a MAClayer
  • 3.1.4. MAC Protocols
  • 3.2. Topology control
  • 3.2.1. Range adjustment
  • 3.2.2. Spanning
  • 3.3. Routing
  • 3.3.1. Broadcast
  • 3.3.2. Classic routing
  • 3.3.3. Geographic routing
  • 3.4. Deployment of sensor networks
  • 3.4.1. Knowing the hardware
  • 3.4.2. Development process
  • 3.4.3. Ensuring stability
  • 3.4.4. Preparing for deployment
  • 3.5. Bibliography
  • ch. 4 Smart Systems, Ambient Intelligence and Energy Sources: Current Developments and Future Applications / Florence Sedes
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Did you say "smart systems"?
  • 4.2.1. Smart materials
  • 4.2.2. Sensors and actuators
  • 4.2.3. Command and control unit
  • 4.2.4. Managing data and security
  • 4.3. Energy harvesting
  • 4.3.1. Initial applications
  • 4.3.2. Second generation
  • 4.3.3. Managing systems, processes and energy
  • 4.4. Wearable computers and smart fibers
  • 4.5. Other applications
  • 4.6. Conclusion
  • 4.7. Bibliography
  • ch. 5 Middleware in Ubiquitous Computing / Gaetan Rey
  • 5.1. Middleware
  • 5.2. Development of middleware with new computer environments
  • 5.2.1. Distribution
  • 5.2.2. Mobility
  • 5.2.3. Context awareness and adaptation
  • 5.2.4. Ubiquitous computing
  • 5.3. Main properties of middleware in ubiquitous computing
  • 5.3.1. Heterogeneity and interoperability
  • 5.3.2. Scalability
  • 5.3.3. Mobility
  • 5.3.4. Variability, unpredictability, extensibility and spontaneous interactions
  • 5.3.5. Dynamic adaptation
  • 5.3.6. Context awareness
  • 5.3.7. Security
  • 5.3.8. Adapted and controlled response times
  • 5.4. Bibliography
  • ch. 6 WComp, Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing and System Focused Adaptation / Jean-Yves Tigli
  • 6.1. Service infrastructure in devices
  • 6.1.1. Interoperability
  • 6.1.2. Event communication
  • 6.1.3. Appearance and disappearance
  • 6.1.4. Decentralized dynamic discovery
  • 6.1.5. WSOAD
  • 6.2. Dynamic service composition
  • 6.2.1. Composition of services for devices: LCA
  • 6.2.2. Distributed composition: SLCA
  • 6.3. Dynamic adaptation of applications to variations in their infrastructure
  • 6.3.1. principles of AOPs
  • 6.3.2. Transverse adaptation
  • 6.3.3. Summary
  • 6.4. Bibliography
  • ch. 7 Data Access and Ambient Computing / Marie Thilliez
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. General context
  • 7.2.1. Devices
  • 7.2.2. Communication
  • 7.2.3. Mobility
  • 7.3. Types of queries
  • 7.3.1. Location queries
  • 7.3.2. Continuous queries
  • 7.4. Data access models
  • 7.4.1. Pull model
  • 7.4.2. Push model
  • 7.5. Query optimization
  • 7.6. Sensitivity to context
  • 7.7. Conclusion
  • 7.8. Bibliography
  • ch. 8 Security and Ambient Systems: A Study on the Evolution of Access Management in Pervasive Information Systems / Florence Sedes
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Managing access in pervasive information systems
  • 8.2.1. Basic access control models
  • 8.2.2. Managing service-oriented access: the XACML standard
  • 8.3. evolution of context-aware RBAC models
  • 8.3.1. Examples of context-aware models
  • 8.3.2. Summary
  • 8.4. Conclusion
  • 8.5. Bibliography
  • ch. 9 Interactive Systems and User-Centered Adaptation: The Plasticity of User Interfaces / Lionel Balme
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. problem space of UI plasticity
  • 9.2.1. Plasticity and elasticity
  • 9.2.2. Adaptation capacity and its problem space
  • 9.2.3. Context of use
  • 9.2.4. Meta-UI and user control
  • 9.2.5. Utility, usability and value
  • 9.2.6. Summary
  • 9.3. CAMELEON reference framework for rational development of plastic UI
  • 9.3.1. Relationships between models
  • 9.3.2. Development process
  • 9.4. CAMELEON-RT run time infrastructure
  • 9.4.1. Functional decomposition of CAMELEON-RT
  • 9.4.2. Situation identifier
  • 9.4.3. Evolution engine
  • 9.4.4. Component manager
  • 9.4.5. Adaptation producer
  • 9.5. Our principles for implementing plasticity
  • 9.6. Conclusion: lessons learned and open challenges
  • 9.7. Appendices
  • 9.7.1. There is plasticity and there is plasticity!
  • 9.7.2. Implementation tools
  • 9.8. Bibliography
  • ch. 10 Composition of User Interfaces / Yoann Gabillon
  • 10.1. Problem
  • 10.2. Case study
  • 10.2.1. Description of the available services
  • 10.2.2. Examples of services built by composition
  • 10.3. Issues
  • 10.4. State of the art in UI composition
  • 10.4.1. Composition: a shared concern
  • 10.4.2. UIs composition
  • 10.4.3. development process of UIs
  • 10.4.4. Generation of UIs
  • 10.4.5. Plasticity of UIs
  • 10.4.6. Summary of the state of the art in UI composition
  • 10.5. Two examples of approaches
  • 10.5.1. Composition driven by the UI and the context of use: Compose
  • 10.5.2. resolution driven by the functional core: Alias
  • 10.6. Key statements and propositions
  • 10.7. Bibliography
  • ch. 11 Smart Homes for People Suffering from Cognitive Disorders / Helene Pigot
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. impact of cognitive disorders on society
  • 11.2.1. Cognitive deficits have high human, social and economic costs
  • 11.2.2. Cognitive assistance and remote monitoring: a source of hope
  • 11.3. Cognitive disorders, relevant clients and research at DOMUS
  • 11.3.1. Manifestations of cognitive difficulties in affected people
  • 11.3.2. Fostering autonomy and aging in place
  • 11.3.3. Accompanying caregivers
  • 11.4. objectives of the research program conducted at DOMUS
  • 11.4.1. Benefits for individuals and society
  • 11.4.2. Transforming the habitat of people with cognitive deficits
  • 11.4.3. Building bridges between research, practice and users
  • 11.5. Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence
  • 11.6. integrated and interdisciplinary approach to research
  • 11.6.1. Guidelines and ethical lines that should not be crossed
  • 11.6.2. Multidisciplinary solutions
  • 11.6.3. Leaving the laboratory to evaluate, validate and transfer solutions
  • 11.6.4. concrete example of the research approach applied at DOMUS
  • 11.7. Transforming a residence into an intelligent habitat
  • 11.8. Research activities
  • 11.8.1. Cognitive ortheses and remote monitoring
  • 11.8.2. Cognitive assistance in the home
  • 11.8.3. Cognitive assistance outside the home
  • 11.8.4. Remote monitoring and organization of work between caregivers
  • 11.8.5. interactive AMELIS calendar: portal to an intelligent habitat
  • 11.8.6. Accompanied social networking
  • 11.8.7. Risk detection
  • 11.8.8. Ambient intelligence: ubiquity, activity recognition and context awareness
  • 11.8.9. Advanced user interfaces
  • 11.8.10. Medical monitoring: gathering ecological data and physiological data
  • 11.8.11. Cognitive modeling and personalization
  • 11.8.12. Heterogeneous networks, distributed systems and use in real life
  • 11.8.13. Identification, localization, simulation and artificial intelligence
  • 11.8.14. Private life, security, and reliability
  • 11.8.15. Design and ergonomics
  • 11.8.16. Clinical studies, usability studies
  • 11.9. Conclusion
  • 11.10. Bibliography
  • ch.
  • 12 Pervasive Games and Critical Applications / Emanuel Zaza
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Pervasive games
  • 12.2.1. "PSM: the game where you are the network"
  • 12.3. Critical ubiquitous applications
  • 12.3.1. Distributed black box
  • 12.3.2. Safeguarding heritage
  • 12.3.3. Summary
  • 12.4. Conclusion
  • 12.5. Bibliography
  • ch. 13 Intelligent Transportation Systems / Thierry Delot
  • 13.1. Introduction
  • 13.2. Software architecture
  • 13.2.1. For what sort of applications?
  • 13.2.2. Importance of the context
  • 13.2.3. Services provided by the platform
  • 13.2.4. Example of a platform
  • 13.3. Dedicated transportation services and mode of communication
  • 13.3.1. Transportation-oriented services that use an infrastructure
  • 13.3.2. Exchange services between vehicles
  • 13.4. Public transportation services
  • 13.4.1. ICAU
  • 13.4.2. Internet access on trains
  • 13.5. Conclusion
  • 13.6. Bibliography
  • ch. 14 Sociotechnical Ambient Systems: From Test Scenario to Scientific Obstacles / Marie-Pierre Gleizes
  • 14.1. Introduction
  • 14.2. Definitions and characteristics
  • 14.3. Real-life scenario: Ambient Campus
  • 14.4. Intuitive architectures
  • 14.4.1. building blocks of the Ambient Campus scenario
  • 14.4.2. Limitations of simplistic infrastructures
  • 14.4.3. Context and role bubbles
  • 14.5. Scientific challenges
  • 14.5.1. AmID
  • 14.5.2. Network level
  • 14.5.3. Middleware level
  • 14.5.4. User service level.
  • Note continued: 14.6. Conclusion
  • 14.7. Acknowledgments
  • 14.8. Bibliography.