We regularly face stress during our everyday activities, to the extent that stress is recognized
by the World Health Organization as the epidemic of the 21st century. Stress is how humans …

The proposed framework enables innovative power management in smart campuses,
integrating local renewable energy sources, battery banks and controllable loads and …

A comprehensive smart office system is designed in this paper. Based on analyses of
different kinds of scenarios, the corresponding sub-systems for ventilating, heating, lighting …

The evolution of the electricity grid towards the smart grid paradigm is fostering the
integration of distributed renewable energy sources in Smart Buildings: a combination of …

Event Processing (EP) is concerned with detection of situations under time constraints that
are of a particular business interest. We face today a paradigm shift toward the real time …

Big Data is one of the most discussed trend themes worldwide in both research community
and industrial practice. Thus, researchers as well as company representatives focus on the …

This paper presents an efficient hardware algorithm for variable-precision logarithm. The
algorithm uses an iterative technique that employs table lookups and polynomial …

In recent years, multiple efforts for reducing energy usage have been proposed. Especially
buildings offer high potentials for energy savings. In this paper, we present a novel approach …

In this paper we introduce the open source testing system QCEP-TS for realizing executable
acceptance test driven development (EATDD) of complex event processing (CEP) …

In this demonstration, we present a closed-loop feedback system for evaluating and
improving the human factors performance of a lighting system based on tunable LED …