Abstract Integrated Ambient Systems provides multiple research opportunities for individuals
to apply their expertise in various contexts through a Cross Domain Collaborative …

This paper presents a personalized middleware for mobile eHealth (mHealth) services for
use in the Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World (UCWW). The middleware was developed …

Recent advances in wireless technology, sensors and portable devices offer interesting
opportunities to enable ubiquitous assistance to individuals in need of prompt help …

Interoperability at the device and system levels has the potential to improve ease of use for
point-of-care systems while lowering the cost of these systems. To this end, we developed a …

Advances in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) will allow a range of medical applications
that will significantly improve the quality of health care. Nevertheless we need to achieve the …

The development of middleware has emerged as an area of expanding research, focused
on the integration of services available for distributed applications. In this context, many …

This paper motivates the need for adaptive behavior in personal gateway devices (such as
cell phones) used in remote health monitoring solutions. We put forth our vision of …

In healthcare chain workflow management, urgent requests and critical messages in these
systems (referred to as alerts) have to be delivered and handled timely. Presently, most …

Due to increasing anticipated average life and health expenditure ambient assisted living
(AAL) systems attract the attention of researchers. To successfully build and deploy AAL …

Developed societies are currently facing severe demographic changes: the world is getting
older at an unprecedented rate. New challenges are raised to the traditional systems of …