The goal of the MavHome (Managing An Intelligent Versatile Home) project is to create a
home that acts as an intelligent agent. In this paper we introduce the MavHome architecture …

The goal of the MavHome project is to create a home that acts as a rational agent. The agent
seeks to maximize inhabitant comfort and minimize operation cost. To achieve these goals …

Mobile health applications, including those that track activities such as exercise, sleep, and
diet, are becoming widely used. Accurately predicting human actions in the real world is …

An intelligent home is likely in the near future. An important ingredient in an intelligent
environment such as a home is prediction–of the next low-level action, the next location, and …

Six topologies of dynamic Bayesian Networks are evaluated for predicting the future user
events:(1) Markov Chain of order 1,(2) Hidden Markov Model,(3) autoregressive Hidden …

Context-awareness is an area in which we strive to improve the environmentapplication
interaction by the consideration of environmental stimuli and with focus on the application's …

'Smart Homes' or 'Intelligent Homes' are capable in making smart or rational decisions and
increase home automation. This is done to maximize inhabitant comfort and minimize …

This research focuses on a modeling approach and set of mathematical tools that were
derived from research on intelligence systems, namely fuzzy system modeling. This study …

Abstract Proactive User Interfaces (PUIs) aim at facilitating the interaction with a user
interface, eg, by highlighting fields or adapting the interface. For that purpose, they need to …

We consider a conversational recommender system based on example-critiquing where
some recommendations are suggestions aimed at stimulating preference expression to …