The built environment sector impacts significantly on communities. At the same time, it is the
sector with the highest cost and environmental saving potentials provided effective …

Web Ontology Language (OWL) is designed to represent varied knowledge about things
and the relationships of things. It is widely used to express complex models and address …

Ad hoc networking is the basis of the future military network-centric warfare architecture.
Such networks are highly dynamic in nature, as mobile ad hoc networks are formed over …

In today's “smart era” there is a growing ecosystem of Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled
devices, which exploit (wireless) Internet connectivity and use standard communication …

Energy consumption has increased considerably in the last years. How to reduce and make
energy consumption more efficient in home environments has become of great interest for …

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of structuring, capturing, creating, and
managing a digital representation of physical and/or functional characteristics of a built …

Defining control scenarios in a smart home is a difficult task for end users. In particular, one
concern is that user-defined scenarios could lead to unsafe or undesired state of the system …

An activity monitoring and reminder delivery framework, referred to as iMessenger, is
presented. iMessenger includes five independent modules and adopts a layered structure to …

Over the last few years, formal ontologies has been suggested as a solution for several
engineer problems, since it can efficiently replace standard data bases and relational one …

Recent advances in IoT and pervasive computing have led to the introduction of a plethora
of devices, featuring enhanced intelligence in sensing, understanding context and reacting …