Over the recent years, the usage of semantic web technologies has notably increased in the
domains of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). These technologies are …

The built environment sector impacts significantly on communities. At the same time, it is the
sector with the highest cost and environmental saving potentials provided effective …

The emerging technologies such as the Internet-of-Things, sensors, communication
networks, have been or will be introduced to conventional domotics to provide a wide variety …

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of structuring, capturing, creating, and
managing a digital representation of physical and/or functional characteristics of a built …

The project SESAME uses semantic modeling and reasoning to support home owners and
building managers in saving energy and in optimizing their energy costs while maintaining …

Research on smart homes (SHs) has increased significantly in recent years because of the
convenience provided by having an assisted living environment. The functions of SHs as …

Recently, quite a few researches upon context-awareness, ubiquitous computing and
automatic surveillance have emerged. Their objectives are to appropriately react to current …

“Pervasive computing” and “ubiquitous computing” are synonymous terms [12]. Those two
terms describe the vision that embedded and invisible technologies help us in our lives by …

Today, many sensor networks and their applications employ a brute force approach to
collecting and analyzing sensor data. Such an approach often wastes valuable energy and …

Abstract Machine perception can be formalized using semantic web technologies in order to
derive abstractions from sensor data using background knowledge on the Web, and …