Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

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Editorial to first issue

Vincenzo Loia

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 1 > 1-2

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Towards evolutionary ambient assisted living systems

Michael J. O’Grady, Conor Muldoon, Mauro Dragone, Richard Tynan, more

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 1 > 15-29

Ambient assisted living (AAL) is advocated as technological solutions that will enable the elderly population maintain their independence for a longer time than would otherwise be the case. Though the facts motivating the need for AAL are indisputable, the inherently heterogeneous nature and requirements of the elderly population raise significant difficulties. One particular challenge is that of...

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Human centricity in computing with fuzzy sets: an interpretability quest for higher order granular constructs

Witold Pedrycz

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 1 > 65-74

The intent of this study is to investigate the capabilities of granular computing (and computing with fuzzy sets, in particular) that are available in the currently existing framework to support the design of human-centric systems. Being cognizant of the inherently numeric nature of fuzzy sets (membership functions), we propose several essential enhancements in order to further foster their interpretability...

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Data ubiquity in autonomic wireless mesh networks

Thabo K. R. Nkwe, Mieso K. Denko, Jason Ernst

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 1 > 3-13

The ability to compute anywhere anytime is increasingly becoming a necessity. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have become a network of choice to provide broadband wireless Internet connectivity where wired infrastructure is uneconomical or impractical to deploy. Their support for inexpensive broadband Internet services has made them even more attractive and increased users’ demand. WMNs suffer from...

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Towards a new human-centred computing methodology for cooperative ambient intelligence

Tom Gross

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 1 > 31-42

Cooperative ambient intelligence aims to improve users’ work and private life by analysing their current situation with a special focus on their social interaction and to adapt the environment accordingly. As technology is seen as highly embedded in physical environments and the social fabric of users, a reconsideration of methods for its design, implementation, and evaluation is vital. In this paper...

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Persuasion in ambient intelligence

Maurits Clemens Kaptein, Panos Markopoulos, Boris Ruyter, Emile Aarts

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 1 > 43-56

Although the field of persuasive technologies has lately attracted a lot of attention, only recently the notion of ambient persuasive technologies was introduced. Ambient persuasive technologies can be integrated into every aspect of life, and as such have greater persuasive power than the traditional box like machines. This article discusses ambient persuasion and poses a model that structures the...

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Recognizing independent and joint activities among multiple residents in smart environments

Geetika Singla, Diane J. Cook, Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 1 > 57-63

The pervasive sensing technologies found in smart homes offer unprecedented opportunities for providing health monitoring and assistance to individuals experiencing difficulties living independently at home. A primary challenge that needs to be tackled to meet this need is the ability to recognize and track functional activities that people perform in their own homes and everyday settings. In this...

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A reliable quick parasitic capacitance extraction tool for the physical layer in communication systems

Yang Yang, Naixue Xiong, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Jintao Xue, more

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 2 > 75-83

High speed communication and application requirements are rapidly increasing, and the quality of physical layer is more and more important to realize real reliable communications. It requires accurate and reliable hardware devices, or else communications may be unstable and unsure. In this paper, we focus on the high speed network hardware integrated circuit systems to obtain good electrical, mechanical...

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Soft computing in intrusion detection: the state of the art

Chet Langin, Shahram Rahimi

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 2 > 133-145

The state of the art is explored in using soft computing (SC) methods for network intrusion detection, including the examination of efforts in ten specific areas of SC as well as consecutive, ensemble, and hybrid combinations. Numerous comparisons of these methods are listed followed by a recommendation for future research. This paper can be used as a reference of strategies, and as a resource for...

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Ontology-based multi-agents for intelligent healthcare applications

Mei-Hui Wang, Chang-Shing Lee, Kuang-Liang Hsieh, Chin-Yuan Hsu, more

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 2 > 111-131

A healthy diet and lifestyle are the most effective approaches to prevent disease. Good eating habits are central to a healthy lifestyle. When a person eats too much or too little on a continual basis, the risk of disease will increase. Therefore, developing healthy and balanced eating habits is essential to disease prevention. This paper proposes an ontology-based multi-agents (OMAS), including a...

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Agents and ambient intelligence: case studies

Dante I. Tapia, Ajith Abraham, Juan M. Corchado, Ricardo S. Alonso

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 2 > 85-93

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 requires the creation of increasingly complex and flexible applications. One of the most important aspects in AmI is the use of context-aware technologies in order to perceive stimuli from both the users and the environment...

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Distributed intelligent sensor agent system for environment mapping

Rami Abielmona, Emil M. Petriu, Thomas E. Whalen

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 2 > 95-110

This paper discusses a multi-agent system consisting of a limited set of mobile intelligent sensor agents that are exploring an environment with the goal of minimizing the environment mapping uncertainty, i.e. the entropy. A novel tree in-motion mapping method combining simplicity and speed of computation with low storage and communications requirements is proposed for the management of a network...

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Human motion detection using Markov random fields

Xiao-Qin Cao, Zhi-Qiang Liu

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 3 > 211-220

In this paper, we propose Markov random fields (MRFs) to automatically detect a moving human body through minimizing the joint energy of the MRF for the velocity and relative position of body parts. The relaxation labeling algorithm is employed to find the best body part labeling configuration between MRFs and observed data. We detect a walking motion viewed monocularly based on point features, where...

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Hierarchical-granularity holonic modelling

Marco Calabrese, Alberto Amato, Vincenzo Di Lecce, Vincenzo Piuri

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 3 > 199-209

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-dependent knowledge. Consequently, changes either in the problem semantics or in the granularity level description may have a significant impact on the overall system re-engineering process. In order to tackle better these...

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Ambient intelligence in self-organising assembly systems using the chemical reaction model

Regina Frei, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Traian Florin Șerbănuță

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 3 > 163-184

This article discusses self-organising assembly systems (SOAS), a type of assembly systems that (1) participate in their own design by spontaneously organising themselves in response to the arrival of a product order and (2) manage themselves during production. SOAS address the industry’s need for agile manufacturing systems to be highly responsive to market dynamics. Manufacturing systems need to...

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Ontology-based view of natural language meaning: the case of humor detection

Julia M. Taylor

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 3 > 221-234

This paper deals with computational detection of humor. It assumes that computational humor is an useful task for any number of reasons and in many applications. Besides these applications, it also shows that recognition of humor is a perfect test platform for an advanced level of language understanding by a computer. It discusses the computational linguistic/semantic preconditions for computational...

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Reliable and efficient service composition based on smart objects’ state information

Yuhong Feng, Jiannong Cao, Yan Sun, Weigang Wu, more

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 3 > 147-161

Service composition is a mechanism to combine two or more services to form a composite service for delivering the users’ desirable functionalities. Existing service composition system in pervasive computing does not capture state information of the smart objects (SOs). Based on the study of relationships of SOs’ states and services, we identify unqualified composite services generated by existing...

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SmartEx: a case study on user profiling and adaptation in exhibition booths

Ben Salem, Jorge Alves Lino, Matthias Rauterberg

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 3 > 185-198

An investigation into user profiling and adaptation with exhibition booth as a case study is reported. First a review of the field of exhibitions and trade fairs and a summary introduction to adaptation and profiling are given. We then introduce three criteria for the evaluation of exhibition booth: effectiveness, efficiency and affect. Effectiveness is related the amount of information collected,...

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A route construction based on measured characteristics of radio propagation in wireless sensor networks

Yasuhiro Nose, Akimitsu Kanzaki, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 4 > 259-270

In wireless sensor networks, there are many constraints on electrical power and communication since sensor nodes have limited resources. Therefore, it is important to construct an effective communication route in terms of energy-efficiency and quality of communication. Many studies have been conducted to address this issue. In particular, controlling the transmission power of each node has been one...

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Adaptive FEC algorithm based on prediction of video quality and bandwidth utilization ratio

Jiao Feng, Chi Xuefen, Peng Li, Wang Yining, more

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing > 2010 > 1 > 4 > 309-318

In this paper, a channel adaptive FEC algorithm is proposed which balances the trade-off between the QoS of video transmission and the bandwidth utilization ratio in wireless IP networks. Our algorithm can dynamically adjust to a suboptimal number of FEC redundant packets to cater to the time-varying wireless channel. For the sake of obtaining the suboptimal amount of FEC redundant packets, we derive...

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Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Editorial to first issue

Towards evolutionary ambient assisted living systems

Human centricity in computing with fuzzy sets: an interpretability quest for higher order granular constructs

Data ubiquity in autonomic wireless mesh networks

Towards a new human-centred computing methodology for cooperative ambient intelligence

Persuasion in ambient intelligence

Recognizing independent and joint activities among multiple residents in smart environments

A reliable quick parasitic capacitance extraction tool for the physical layer in communication systems

Soft computing in intrusion detection: the state of the art

Ontology-based multi-agents for intelligent healthcare applications

Agents and ambient intelligence: case studies

Distributed intelligent sensor agent system for environment mapping

Human motion detection using Markov random fields

Hierarchical-granularity holonic modelling

Ambient intelligence in self-organising assembly systems using the chemical reaction model

Ontology-based view of natural language meaning: the case of humor detection

Reliable and efficient service composition based on smart objects’ state information

SmartEx: a case study on user profiling and adaptation in exhibition booths

A route construction based on measured characteristics of radio propagation in wireless sensor networks

Adaptive FEC algorithm based on prediction of video quality and bandwidth utilization ratio

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