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9783540359944

Designing Smart Homes

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    9783540359944

  • ISBN10:

    354035994X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-08-15
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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Summary

The area of smart homes is fast developing as an emergent area which attracts the synergy of several areas of science. This volume offers a collection of contributions addressing how artificial intelligence (AI), one of the core areas of computer science, can bring the growing area of smart homes to a higher level of functionality where homes can truly realize the long standing dream of proactively helping their inhabitants in an intelligent way.After an introductory section to describe a smart home scenario and to provide some basic terminology, the following 9 sections turn special attention to a particular exemplar application scenario (provision of healthcare and safety related services to increase the quality of life) exploring the application of specific areas of AI to this scenario.

Table of Contents

Smart Homes Can Be Smarterp. 1
Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Smart Homesp. 16
Temporal Constraints with Multiple Granularities in Smart Homesp. 35
Causal Reasoning for Alert Generation in Smart Homesp. 57
Plans and Planning in Smart Homesp. 71
Temporal Data Mining for Smart Homesp. 85
Cases, Context, and Comfort: Opportunities for Case-Based Reasoning in Smart Homesp. 109
Application of Decision Trees to Smart Homesp. 132
Artificial Neural Networks in Smart Homesp. 146
A Multi-agent Approach to Controlling a Smart Environmentp. 165
Author Indexp. 183
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