Smart environments are spaces that interact with users taking into account their needs and
preferences. Systems that manage these environments need to manipulate the context for …

With the augmentation of population's life expectancy as a whole, there is a need for
intelligent applications to assist citizens in their daily activities. Ambient Assisted Living–AAL …

Ambient Intelligence provides technology support and assistance to help people in their
daily wellbeing. Equipped with ubiquitous technologies, Ambient Intelligence uses sensors …

In proactive computing, systems can act to eliminate, mitigate or take advantage of previous
knowledge to manipulate situations of interest in advance. Such behavior is critical for …

The term ubiquitous smart system is utilized to characterize applications that are able to
perceive the user context and properly react, according to the occurrence of specific events …

Abstract Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) includes assistance to carry out daily activities,
health and activity monitoring, enhancing safety and security, getting access to, medical and …

This paper analyses the requirements of automation and adaptation in the so called
perceptive environments. These environments are places with the ability of perceiving the …

The longevity of the population is the result of important scientific breakthroughs in recent
years. However, living longer with quality, also brings new challenges to governments, and …

Nowadays, systems are growing in power and in access to more resources and services.
This situation makes it necessary to provide user-centered systems that act as intelligent …

The maintenance of context information for realworld environments contains several
challenges when it has to be computationally observed. Any event that is observable in the …