As two major communication technologies, the internet and wireless, are maturing rapidly to
dominate our civilised life, the authors urgently need to re-establish users' confidence to …

Having seen increased interest from the research community, smart camera systems have
gone through a number of evolutionary steps like from single cameras to distributed smart …

In this paper we present a Cooperative Surveillance Multi-Agent System (CS-MAS)
architecture extended to incorporate dynamic coalition formation. We illustrate specific …

Abstract Ambient Intelligence (AmI) aims at the development of computational systems that
process data acquired by sensors embedded in the environment to support users in …

Recently, interest about security in public and private spaces has increased in favour of
social welfare. Surveillance systems are increasingly needed to provide security for citizens …

Technological progress in the fields of Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and
wireless communications and also the availability of CMOS cameras, microphones and …

Intelligent surveillance involves the use of AI techniques to monitor environments whose
analysis is becoming more and more complex because of the large number of sensors used …

A reusable agent-based generic model is presented for a specific class of Ambient
Intelligence pplications: those cases addressing human wellbeing and functioning from a …

Smart camera networks are real-time distributed embedded systems that perform computer
vision using multiple cameras. This new approach has emerged thanks to a confluence of …

A great number of methodologies to develop multi-agent systems (MAS) have been
proposed in the last few years. But a unique methodology cannot be general enough to be …