Climate change has become a major problem for humanity in the last two decades. One of
the reasons that caused it, is our daily energy waste. People consume electricity in order to …

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 …

Smart cities have seen a growing interest among governments, researchers, and industries.
Smart cities use digital technologies to enhance the quality of life for residents while …

Multi-agent Pathfinding, also known as MAPF, is an Artificial Intelligence problem-solving.
The aim is to direct each agent to find its path to reach its target, both individually and in …

The advent of Industry 4.0 and the development of future industrial applications can be
achieved using Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This technological development invokes …

Roboticized nursing technology is a significant means to implement efficient elderly care
and improve their welfare. Introducing multi-heterogeneous robot systems (MHRS) and …

Abstract “Modernity” is a social, cultural or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or
set of social arrangements. This monograph reviews narratives of digital modernity, without …

Uncertainty is inevitable in ambient assisted living (AAL) environments as sensors may read
inaccurate data or due to the existence of unobserved variables for privacy reasons …

Deep learning is rapidly growing, obtaining groundbreaking results in speech recognition,
image processing, pattern recognition, and many other application domains. Following the …

The use of surface electromyography (EMG) and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data
emerged as a possible alternative to computer vision-based gesture recognition. As a …