As we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of sensors deployed
around the world is growing at a rapid pace. Market research has shown a significant growth …

Aging population ratios are rising significantly. Health monitoring systems (HMS) in smart
environments have evolved rapidly to become a viable alternative to traditional healthcare …

Internet of Things (IoT) has been growing rapidly due to recent advancements in
communications and sensor technologies. Meanwhile, with this revolutionary transformation …

Context-awareness is an essential component of systems developed in areas like Intelligent
Environments, Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In these …

Acquiring knowledge from continuous and heterogeneous data streams is a prerequisite for
Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Semantic technologies provide comprehensive tools …

Context aware applications, which can adapt their behaviors to changing environments, are
attracting more and more attention. To simplify the complexity of developing applications …

As the core layer of the Internet of Things (IoT), middleware bridges the gap between
applications and devices to resolve many common IoT issues and enhancing application …

The demographic change towards an aging population is creating a significant impact and
introducing drastic challenges to our society. We therefore need to find ways to assist older …

The connection between humans and digital technologies has been documented
extensively in the past decades but needs to be evaluated through the current global …

Smart home environments have a significant potential to provide for long-term monitoring of
users with special needs in order to promote the possibility to age at home. Such …