Handbook of ambient intelligence and smart environments

This handbook is a comprehensive presentation of the latest developments in Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. Given the multi-disciplinary nature of the field, contributions in the volume span a variety of areas, addressing topics such as: Modeling complex environments, scene and event modeling, representation and reconstruction, agent-based approaches, applications of combined pervasive/ubiquitous computing, distributed and collaborative computing andreasoning, robotics applied to smart environments, human interaction with autonomous systems, multimodal interfaces, distributed video, surveillance, data fusion, context awareness, social issues of applications, legal issues, intelligent handling of privacy, security and trust, network middleware and protocols, responsive/active architectures, use of RFID applications and use of mobile, wireless, visual and multi-modal sensor networks. Organizes all major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, and challenges into a coherent and unified repository Provides the first available reference into this emerging area ofresearch

• ISBN: 978-0-387-93807-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 1205
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés