TY - BOOK AU - Curran,Kevin ED - IGI eBooks. ED - IGI Global. TI - Ubiquitous developments in ambient computing and intelligence: human-centered applications SN - 9781609605506 (ebook) AV - QA76.5915 .U264 2011eb U1 - 004 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Hershey, Pa. PB - IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA) KW - Ubiquitous computing KW - Ambient intelligence KW - Electronic data processing KW - Distributed processing KW - Agent-based approaches KW - Smart home environments KW - Deployed systems KW - Communication systems and infrastructure for ambient intelligence KW - Context awareness, sensing, and inference for ambient intelligence KW - Human interaction with autonomous systems KW - Innovative applications of AI to ambient intelligence KW - Mobile computing KW - Objects, devices, and environments that embody ambient intelligence KW - Security, privacy, and trust KW - Self-adaptive systems KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Context-aware pervasive services for smart cities / Ren�e Meier, Deirdre Lee -- 2. Improving an ambient intelligence based multi-agent system for Alzheimer health care using wireless sensor networks / Dante Tapia, Ricardo Alonso, Juan Corchado -- 3. Adaptive awareness of hospital patient information through multiple sentient displays / Jesus Favela ... [et al.] -- 4. Vehicular networks security / Christian Tchepnda ... [et al.] -- 5. A comprehensive solution for ambient intelligence / Felix Villanueva ... [et al.] -- 6. Variability in ambient intelligence a Family of Middleware solution / Lidia Fuentes, Nadia Gamez, Pablo Sanchez -- 7. Motorola's experiences in designing the Internet of things / Andreas Schaller, Katrin Mueller -- 8. On ambient information systems / William Hazlewood, Lorcan Coyle -- 9. Life in the pocket - the Ambient Life Project / Fabian Hemmert -- 10. Staged fa�cades / Bernhard Wally, Alois Ferscha -- 11. Ambient displays in academic settings / Umar Rashid, Aaron Quigley -- 12. Beyond ambient display / Andrew Vande Moere, Dietmar Offenhuber -- 13. Meaning makers / Germ�an Insua ... [et al.] -- 14. Ambient communication experience (ACE), information interaction in design space / Rosaleen Hegarty ... [et al.] -- 15. Issues for the evaluation of ambient displays / Xiaobin Shen ... [et al.] -- 16. Using ambient social reminders to stay in touch with friends / Ross Shannon, Eugene Kenny, Aaron Quigley -- 17. Designing interactive architecture / Mikael Wiberg --; 18. Routing in opportunistic networks / Hoang Nguyen, Silvia Giordano -- 19. Online remote control of a wireless home automation network / John Wade, Jose Santos, Noel Evans -- 20. Distributed schema-based middleware for ambient intelligence environments / Javier G�omez ... [et al.] -- 21. Proactive context-aware middleware / Karen Lee ... [et al.] -- 22. Integrating sensor nodes into a middleware for ambient intelligence / Holger Klus, Dirk Niebuhr -- 23. Intrusive evaluation of ambient displays / Xiaobin Shen -- 24. Smart home research / Michael Poland ... [et al.] -- 25. Deepk�ver an adaptive intelligent assistance system for monitoring impaired people in smart homes / Mehdi Najjar ... [et al.] -- 26. RFID-enabled location determination within indoor environments / Kevin Curran, Stephen Norrby; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print N2 - "This book provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge in cutting-edge research in fields as diverse as distributed computing, human computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, embedded systems, and other interdisciplinary areas which all contribute to ambient computing and intelligence"--Provided by publisher UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-60960-549-0 ER -