Includes bibliographical references.

1. Ambient intelligence as cognitive niche enrichment: foundational issues / Lorenzo Magnani and Emanuele Bardone -- 2. Tracking persons: a survey / Christine Leignel and Jean-Michel Jolion -- 3. SensFloor and NaviFloor: large-area sensor systems beneath your feet / Axel Steinhage and Christl Lauterbach -- 4. Embedding context-awareness into a daily object for improved information awareness: a case study using a mirror / Kaori Fujinami and Fahim Kawsar -- 5. Image-word mapping / Yang Cai and David Kaufer -- 6. A Survey on the use of emotions, mood, and personality in ambient intelligence and smart environments / Carlos Ramos, Goreti Marreiros and Ricardo Santos -- 7. Logical modeling of emotions for ambient intelligence / Carole Adam, Benoit Gaudou, Dominique Login and Emiliano Lorini -- 8. Incorporating human aspects in ambient intelligence and smart environments / Tibor Bosse ... [et al.] -- 9. Assistive technologies in smart homes / Tatsuya Yamazaki -- 10. System support for smart spaces / Francisco J. Ballestero, Enrique Soriano and Gorka Guardiola -- 11. MEDUSA: middleware for end-user composition of ubiquitous applications / Oleg Davidyuk, Val�rie Issarny and Jukka Riekki -- 12. Home service engineering for sensor networks / Jochen Meis and Manfred Wojciechowski -- 13. Dynamic ambient networks with middleware / Baoying Wang and Rebecca L. Willard -- 14. Using context awareness for self-management in pervasive service middleware / Weishan Zhang and Klaus Marius Hansen -- 15. An ontology-based context-aware infrastructure for smart homes / Bin Guo, Daqing Zhang and Michita Imai -- 16. State-of-the-art assistive technology for people with dementia / Clifton Phua ... [et al.] --

17. Challenging issues of ambient activity recognition for cognitive assistance / Patrice C. Roy ... [et al.] -- 18. Logic-based approaches to intention recognition / Fariba Sadri -- 19. Inference of human intentions in context aware systems / Katsunori Oyama, Carl K. Chang and Simanta Mitra -- 20. Ambient intelligence for eldercare - the nuts and bolts: sensor data acquisition, processing and activity recognition under resource constraints / Jit Biswas ... [et al.] -- 21. Behaviour monitoring and interpretation: facets of BMI systems / Bj�orn Gottfried -- 22. Recognising human behaviour in a spatio-temporal context / Hans W. Guesgen and Stephen Marsland -- 23. Prototyping smart assistance with Bayesian autonomous driver models / Claus Moebus and Mark Eilers -- 24. Context-sensitive spatial interaction and ambient control / Bernd Krieg-Br�uckner ... [et al.] -- 25. Proactive assistance in ecologies of physically embedded intelligent systems a constraint-based approach / Marcello Cirillo, Federico Pecora and Alessandro Saffiotti -- 26. Self-organizing mobile sensor network: distributed topology control framework / Geunho Lee and Nak Young Chong -- 27. Pervasive computing for efficient energy / M�aria Bielikov�a ... [et al.] -- 28. Ambient intelligence and immersive geospatial visual analytics / Raffaele De Amicis and Giuseppe Conti -- 29. Possibilities of ambient intelligence and smart environments in educational institutions / Peter Mikuleck�y -- 30. Opinion mining and information retrieval: techniques for E-commerce / Shishir K. Shandilya and Suresh Jain.

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