Background Indoor navigation within closed facilities has been subject of studies with
different application areas, particularly in recent years (eg the navigation requirements of …

Despite the great attention that the research community has paid to the creation of novel
indoor positioning methods, a rather limited volume of works has focused on the confidence …

During the last decades, location based services have become very popular and the
developed indoor positioning systems have achieved an impressive accuracy. The problem …

This paper presents a method for continuous indoor–outdoor environment detection on
mobile devices based solely on Wi-Fi fingerprints. Detection of indoor–outdoor switching is …

Cognitive Assistants is a subset area of Personal Assistants focused on ubiquitous and
pervasive platforms and services. They are aimed at elderly people's needs, habits, and …

Indoor localization systems assume that the user's current building is known by the GPS
(Global Positioning System). However, such assumptions do not hold true in GPS denied …

Ubiquitous and seamless indoor-outdoor (I/O) localization is the primary objective for
gaining more user satisfaction and sustaining the prosperity of the location-based services …

Location-based services have become very popular in recent years. Although many
previous works targeted the problem of indoor localization, several reasons still prevent the …

Evaluating positioning systems has become a matter of heated debate during the last years.
There is no clear standard on how these technologies should be evaluated, and no …

The primary expectation from positioning systems is for them to provide the users with
reliable estimates of their position. An additional piece of information that can greatly help …