The increase in computational power and the networking abilities of home appliances are
revolutionizing the way we interact with our homes. This trend is growing stronger and …

In recent years, the merging of computing with physical things, enabled the transformation of
everyday objects into information appliances. We propose to reuse the central principles of …

New technological advancements allow the Internet to penetrate in embedded computing.
The Web of Things interconnects these Internet-enabled embedded devices, by reusing …

The purpose of the Smart Home Project is to devise a set of intelligent home appliances that
can provide an awareness of the users' needs, providing them with a better home life …

Pervasive computing environments such as our future homes are the prototypical example
of a dynamic, complex system where Service-Oriented Computing techniques will play an …

Domotics, concerned with the realization of intelligent home environments, is a novel field
which can highly benefit from solutions inspired by service-oriented principles to enhance …

Within an ambient intelligence context, this paper presents an approach to Human Home
Interaction through the adoption of the DomoML web service based framework. This …

The increasing level of device connectivity in today's homes and buildings enables
numerous opportunities for home owners, building managers, device manufacturers and …

The scope of Web-enabled eHome services covers both automated homes and automated
industry facilities. Web-enabled eHome services provide a fully integrated view onto …

Pervasive systems, and domotics in particular, is an application area where heterogeneity is
the norm, with thousands of autonomous heterogeneous devices live together and need to …