Innovations and practical applications of intelligent systems in ambient intelligence and humanized computing

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Feb 2017

David Camacho, Paulo Novais

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Innovations and practical applications of intelligent systems in ambient intelligence and humanized computing

Innovations and practical applications of intelligent systems in ambient intelligence and humanized computing David Camacho 0 1 Paulo Novais 0 1 0 Departamento de Informática/Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar , 4710-057 Braga , Portugal 1 Computer Science Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Avda. Tomas y Valiente, n11, 28049 Madrid , Spain Paulo Novais 1 Introduction Ambient intelligence (AmI) goal is increasing the quality of life and security of the users by introducing the technology into everyday environment, relieving the users’ burden in performing normal activities. Therefore, the AmI can be seen as the provision of services in the environment, with a very particular nuance: that these services must be personalized, i.e., tailored to the user’s preferences and needs. We consistently find that the behaviour of people can effectively be used as an interaction medium with technology, i.e., it is possible to develop AmI systems that are responsive to people’s behaviours (Aztiria et  al. 2010), to model their behaviours (Rodríguez-Fernández et  al. 2016, 2017) or even to predict their future necessities. Intelligent Systems, along with the AmI, aims to include technology that is more smart, intelligent and also reliable in the environments, allowing better support for humans when interacting with these environments. Current trends on other areas as Big Data analysis (Iqbal et  al. 2016), specially focused on Social analysis (Bello-Orgaz et  al. 2016) and Information Fusion, are opening new interesting areas of work, from communities detection (Bello-Orgaz et  al. 2017; González-Pardo et  al. 2017), new algorithms, systems and frameworks implementations (CampilloSanchez et  al. 2015), or ambient-assisted living tools (Rashidi and Mihailidis 2013) amongst others. These, and other related areas, will provide new challenges to AmI and Intelligent Systems in the near future. This special issue on Innovations and Practical applications of Intelligent Systems in Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing is devoted to create a multi-disciplinary discussion forum that bring together researchers from the different fields addressed discussing issues in Intelligent Systems topics involved in the Ambient Intelligence environments. A special emphasis is done to the presentation of concrete systems, discussion of implementation and development challenges and sharing of conclusions achieved and relevant results. From previous state of the art, some contributions have been selected in order to take a step forward over different problems and challenges related to AmI. 1.1 Contributions of this issue The paper entitled “Ubiquitous driving and community knowledge” (Silva and Analide 2016) authored by Silva and Analide presented the PHESS Driving platform enables unobtrusive sensorization of driving actions while acquiring data used to the analysis of driving behavior. In the paper “Direct trust assignment using social reputation and aging” (Buzzanca et  al. 2016) authored Marco Buzzanca et al. the exploitation of trust in virtual environments, on-line services, intelligent pervasive environments and many other scenarios still deserve researchers’ interest. In this work the authors investigate, particularly, on how to assess the local (direct) trust a node receives from each of his neighbors. The paper entitled “Towards improving feature extraction and classification for activity recognition on streaming data” (Yala et  al. 2016) authored by Nawel Yala et  al. propose and evaluate an extension of a sensor window approach to perform activity recognition in an online/ streaming setting; recognizing activities when a new sensor event is recorded. The paper entitled “Context acquisition in auditory emotional recognition studies” (Carneiro et  al. 2016) authored by Davide Carneiro et  al. describes an environment to access auditory emotional recognition based on a mobile application. The paper entitled “Agent architecture for crowd simulation in indoor environments” (Pax and Pavón 2016) authored by Rafael Pax and Juan Pavón, purpose an agent based simulation tools for quick prototyping in order to validate social models. The paper entitled “MAS-based self-adaptive architecture for controlling and monitoring cloud platforms” (Prieta et al. 2017) authored by Prieta et al. presents an architecture to model the control and monitoring system of a Cloud Computing platform by using a Virtual Organization of intelligent agents that self-adapt and reorganize according to the needs of the surrounding environment. Finally, the paper entitled “Smart environment architecture for robust people detection by infrared and visible video fusion” (Castillo et al. 2016) authored by José Carlos Castillo et al. this paper proposes an architecture for people detection which is focused on robustly detection by infrared and visible video fusion in smart environment. Acknowledgemen (...truncated)


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David Camacho, Paulo Novais. Innovations and practical applications of intelligent systems in ambient intelligence and humanized computing, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2017, pp. 155-156, Volume 8, Issue 2, DOI: 10.1007/s12652-017-0454-z