More than a decade ago, the research topic models@ run. time was coined. Since then, the
research area has received increasing attention. Given the prolific results during these …

Activity and behaviour monitoring of inhabitants play an essential role in an ambient
environment. Different researchers proposed many promising solutions; this discipline …

The development of self-adaptive software requires the engineering of an adaptation engine
that controls the underlying adaptable software by a feedback loop. State-of-the-art …

The growing number of older people emerges the need to consider autonomy concerns for
those people and their need for intensive care. Plenty of researches, such as those in the …

Upcoming application domains, from ambient assisted living to car2car, show the need for
openness, flexibility and safety in next generation embedded systems. Whilst there are …

Abstract The Internet of Robotic Things, which includes ambient assisted living systems has
been pushed to be developed by the research community for reasons such as the …

In action recognition, local motion descriptors contribute to effectively representing video
sequences where target actions appear in localized spatio-temporal regions. For robust …

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) are
development approaches that focus on automation to increase productivity and throughput …

In the next decades, the growth in population aging will cause important problems to most
industrialized countries. To tackle this issue, Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) systems can …

The increasing popularity of computers in all areas of life raises new challenges for
computer scientists and developers in all areas of computing technology. Networked …