An area that has received much research attention in recent years is the design of self-
adaptive multi-agent systems (MAS) for cost collaborative management (CCM) of supply …

Situation awareness is a powerful paradigm that can efficiently exploit the increasing
capabilities of handheld devices, such as smart phones and PDAs. Indeed, accurate …

We focus on Internet of Things (IoT) environments where a network of sensing and
computing devices are responsible to locally process contextual data, reason and …

To realize smart home vision in an equipped domain, several types of context-aware
applications should be deployed. Because of complex tasks of context gathering and …

Power grids deal with the business of generation, transmission, and distribution of electric
power. Recently, interest in power quality in electrical distribution systems has increased …

Currently, the field of smart-*(home, city, health, tourism, etc.) is naturally heterogeneous and
multimedia oriented. In such a domain, there is an increasing usage of heterogeneous …

Current mobile devices allow the execution of sophisticated applications with the capacity
for identifying the user situation, which can be helpful in treatments of mental disorders. In …

In highly dynamic domains such as the Internet of Things (IoT), smart industries, smart
manufacturing, pervasive health or social media, data is being continuously generated. By …

Increasing widespread use of sensor and networking technologies are yielding ubiquitous
sensors and applications that pervade daily life. At the same time, context-aware pervasive …

Context-aware computing relies on sensing environmental parameters—context (eg,
illumination, location), classifying context, and inferring further knowledge about context, ie …