Background With an ever-growing ageing population, dementia is fast becoming the chronic
disease of the 21 st century. Elderly people affected with dementia progressively lose their …

On account of chronic neurocognitive disorders, many people progressively lose their
autonomy and become more dependent on others, finally reaching the stage when they …

Ambient and pervasive technologies provide several ways to assist people with special
needs in smart environments. However, the system's complexity and the size of the …

Context-aware software provides adapted services to users or other software components.
On the other hand, Autonomic Pervasive Computing uses Context to reduce the complexity …

In this paper we show how pervasive technologies can be employed on a public-display
advertisement scenario to enable behavioral self-adaptation of content. We show this …

The large scale deployment of ambient assisted living systems raises challenges related to
the heterogeneity of the environments in which sensors, devices and services will be …

Autonomic Computing Self-Configuration/Organization can simplify the complexity of
software deployment, management and utilization in pervasive environments such as smart …

The presence of a multitude of heterogeneous devices in a smart home environment create
a whole puzzle when comes the time to deploy, update, or manage applications on these …

The increasing popularity of computers in all areas of life raises new challenges for
computer scientists and developers in all areas of computing technology. Networked …

This paper describes our research strategy in providing dependent people (elderly and
people with disabilities) with assistive services in their living environment (indoor/outdoor) in …