Smarter smartphones: understanding and predicting user habits from GPS sensor data

G Maggiore, C Santos, A Plaat - Procedia Computer Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Smartphones and similar devices allow access to a wealth of information. Navigating this
wealth of information is problematic. Semantic locations, assigned to observed GPS user …

A computational metric of the quality of circulation in interior spaces

A Bahrehmand, A Evans, J Blat - … International Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space, in terms of interior and exterior design, is one of the most important issues facing all
architects. In particular the movement of people through sequences of spaces forms a large …

NIBU: An integrated framework for representing the relation among building structure and interior utilities in micro-scale environment

I Hijazi, S Zlatanova, M Ehlers - Geo-spatial Information Science, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This paper describes a framework for modeling interdependencies between different
network systems and building structures. It provides an approach for the integrated analysis …

Time and space reasoning for ambient systems

RR Boukharrou, JM Ilié, DE Saidouni - International Journal of …, 2017 - igi-global.com
This paper presents an algebraic language, called Time-AgLOTOS, to describe time-
dependent behavior of intelligent agent for the design of Ambient Intelligence systems. This …

3D indoor route planning for arbitrary-shape objects

W Yuan, M Schneider - International Conference on Database Systems for …, 2011 - Springer
Route planning, which is used to calculate feasible routes in a given environment, is one of
the key issues in navigation systems. According to different constraints in different given …

A smart city case study: dynamic management of road lanes

C Wang, B David, R Chalon - … Conference, DAPI 2014, Held as Part of HCI …, 2014 - Springer
The SMART CITY is an important field for ubiquitous computing (UC), ambient intelligence
(AmI), connected vehicles (CV), and new styles of User Interfaces, mainly mobile. Data …

Adaptive cell-based index for moving objects in indoor

SS Shin, GB Kim, HY Bae - KSII Transactions on Internet and …, 2012 - koreascience.kr
Existing R-tree that is based on a variety of outdoor-based techniques to manage moving
objects have been investigated. Due to the different characteristics of the indoor and …

Indoor location based services

E Mohammadi - Master's thesis, University of Calgary, 2011 - library-archives.canada.ca
Abstract<? Pub Inc> With the advent of mobile devices and the Internet, location based
services (LBS) has become an important part of our daily lives. Location based services …

Garbage collection in message passing distributed systems

MV Sreenivas, S Bhalla - Proceedings the First Aizu …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed systems use optimistic message logging for recovery from transient process
failures. Such a recovery is facilitated by asynchronous message logging and check …

Determining the position of a mobile device in a geographical area

N Trigoni, X Zhuoling - US Patent 10,281,282, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method of determining the position of a mobile device uses a model. The
model is constructed by obtaining a map of a geographical area, constructing the graph …