Pervasive systems must offer an open, extensible, and evolving portfolio of services which
integrate sensor data from a diverse range of sources. The core challenge is to provide …

In this article we survey ambient intelligence (AmI), including its applications, some of the
technologies it uses, and its social and ethical implications. The applications include AmI at …

Purpose: To obtain insight into what kind of monitoring technologies exist to monitor activity
in-home, what the characteristics and aims of applying these technologies are, what kind of …

Advancement and application of rule-based systems have always been a key research area
in computer-aided support for human decision making due to the fact that rule base is one of …

A smart home is a residence equipped with technologies that facilitate monitoring of
residents, promote independence and increase the quality of life. In general, smart homes …

Abstract The Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach is a general approach for analyzing
multiple criteria decision problems under various types of uncertainty using a unified …

With the continuous expansion of sub-ecological problems, it is the question of how to
effectively reduce environmental pollution and improve energy efficiency that has become a …

Belief rule based (BRB) system provides a generic inference framework for approximating
complicated nonlinear causal relationships between antecedent inputs and output. It has …

The ability to identify the behavior of people in a home is at the core of Smart Home
functionality. Such environments are equipped with sensors that unobtrusively capture …

The advantages and applications of rule-based systems have caused them to be widely
recognized as one of the most popular systems in human decision-making, due to their …