Modern buildings are being integrated with myriad (often> 1000s) networked sensors to
improve convenience, occupant comfort accessibility and energy-efficient operations. These …

Several ontologies exist that model aspects of home or building automation systems for
specific use cases. However, no comprehensive approach exists, that models building …

Abstract Service-oriented architectures, and notably Web Services, are becoming an
incontrovertible paradigm for the development of applications in pervasive computing …

In the rapidly developing space of novel technologies that combine sensing and semantic
technologies, research on smart products has the potential of establishing a research field in …

Service Orientation (SO) is a relevant promising candidate for accommodating rapidly
changing user needs and expectations. Adopting SO in practice for real software and system …

Context-awareness can serve to make ubiquitous applications deployed for mobile devices
adaptive, personalized, and accessible in dynamically changing environments …

Demographic aging, as a result of people living for longer, has put an increased burden on
health and social care provision across most of the economies of the developed and …

For an environment to be perceived as being smart, contextual information has to be
gathered to adapt the system's behavior and its interface towards the user. Being a rich …

Pervasive computing environments involve a variety of smart devices and home appliances.
Communities of these devices form a ubiquitous information processing system to which the …

Service orientation (SO) is a relevant promising candidate for accommodating rapidly
changing user needs and expectations. One of the goals of adopting SO is the improvement …