Designing Smart Homes : The Role of Artificial Intelligence / / edited by Juan Carlos Augusto, Chris D. Nugent

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484941903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2006
• ISBN: 3-540-35995-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2006.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 183 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 4008
• Disciplina: 006.3; 643.6
• Soggetti: Artificial intelligence; Application software; Information storage and retrieval; Computers and civilization; Management information systems; Computer science; Artificial Intelligence; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Information Storage and Retrieval; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computers and Society; Management of Computing and Information Systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Smart Homes Can Be Smarter -- Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Smart Homes -- Temporal Constraints with Multiple Granularities in Smart Homes -- Causal Reasoning for Alert Generation in Smart Homes -- Plans and Planning in Smart Homes -- Temporal Data Mining for Smart Homes -- Cases, Context, and Comfort: Opportunities for Case-Based Reasoning in Smart Homes -- Application of Decision Trees to Smart Homes -- Artificial Neural Networks in Smart Homes -- A Multi-agent Approach to Controlling a Smart Environment.
• Sommario/riassunto: The area of smart homes is fast developing as an emergent area which ; attracts the synergy of several areas of science. This volume offers a collection of contributions addressing how artificial intelligence (AI), one of the core areas of computer science, can bring the growing area of smart homes to a higher level of functionality where homes can truly realize the long standing dream of proactively helping their inhabitants in an intelligent way. After an introductory section to describe a smart home scenario and to provide some basic terminology, the following 9 sections turn special attention to a particular exemplar application scenario (provision of healthcare and safety related services to increase the quality of life) exploring the application of specific areas of AI to this scenario.