This work introduces an ontology for incorporating Ambient Intelligence in Smart Buildings.
The ontology extends and benefits from existing ontologies in the field, but also adds …

Activity Recognition (AR) is an active research topic focused on detecting human actions
and behaviours in smart environments. In this work, we present the on-line activity …

This article presents a comparative review of systems performing service composition in
Ambient Intelligence Environments. Such environments should comply to ubiquitous or …

Abstract Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained considerable popularity for the
development of distributed enterprise-wide applications within the software industry. The …

Context is a useful concept somehow unconsciously used by humans in daily life problem-
solving. Recently, several subareas of computer science have been increasingly trying to …

Web service composition allows developers to create applications by capitalizing on the
service-oriented architecture paradigm. Such applications are rapidly deployable and offer …

This paper introduces a proposal for a smart grid management platform built on the
distributed programming paradigm. Besides it is based on an information model and event …

The implementation of decentralized water management (DWM) systems as a mainstream
practice is impeded by the knowledge gaps on their actual performance in a range of …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is envisioned as a global network of connected things enabling
ubiquitous machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. With estimations of billions of …

Semantic Web technologies have become a reference technology for information modelling
and reasoning support in Smart Homes. This paper provides an extensive review of the …