Ambient Intelligence: Second European Symposium, EUSAI 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 8-11, 2004. Proceedings

Jürgen Bohn, Friedemann Mattern (auth.), Panos Markopoulos, Berry Eggen, Emile Aarts, James L. Crowley (eds.)3540237216, 9783540237211, 9783540304739

This volume of the LNCS is the formal proceedings of the 2nd European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, EUSAI 2004. This event was held on November 8–10, 2004 at the Eindhoven University of Technology, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. EUSAI 2004 followed a successful first event in 2003, organized by Philips Research. This turned out to be a timely initiative that created a forum for bringing together European researchers, working on different disciplines all contributing towards the human-centric technological vision of ambient intelligence. Compared to conferences working on similar and overlapping fields, the first EUSAI was characterized by a strong industrial focus reflected in the program committee and the content of the program. As program chairs of EUSAI 2004 we tried to preserve the character for this event and its combined focus on the four major thematic areas: ubiquitous computing, context awareness, intelligence, and natural interaction. Further, we tried to make EUSAI 2004 grow into a full-fledged double-track conference, with surrounding events like tutorials and specialized workshops, a poster and demonstration exhibition and a student design competition. The conference program included three invited keynotes, Ted Selker from MIT, Tom Rodden from the University of Nottingham and Tom Erickson from IBM.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Super-distributed RFID Tag Infrastructures….Pages 1-12
Using Ontologies to Address Key Issues in Ubiquitous Computing Systems….Pages 13-24
Performance Evaluation of Personal Agent Migration Policies in an Ambient Use Case Scenario….Pages 25-36
QoS Provision Using Dual RF Modules in Wireless LAN….Pages 37-48
Using Cooperative Artefacts as Basis for Activity Recognition….Pages 49-60
Privacy Protection in Memory-Based Collaborative Filtering….Pages 61-71
Context-Aware, Ontology-Based Service Discovery….Pages 72-83
Context-Based Service Access for Train Travelers….Pages 84-87
System for Monitoring and Coaching of Sportsmen….Pages 88-91
From Imagination to Experience: The Role of Feasibility Studies in Gathering Requirements for Ambient Intelligent Products….Pages 92-99
Using Integration Frameworks for Developing Context-Aware Applications….Pages 100-111
A Generic Topology for Ambient Intelligence….Pages 112-123
A Distributed Location Sensing Platform for Dynamic Building Models….Pages 124-135
Distributed Feature Extraction for Event Identification….Pages 136-147
Towards an Extensible Context Ontology for Ambient Intelligence….Pages 148-159
Integrating Handhelds into Environments of Cooperating Smart Everyday Objects….Pages 160-171
Remote Code Execution on Ubiquitous Mobile Applications….Pages 172-183
The PLANTS System: Enabling Mixed Societies of Communicating Plants and Artefacts….Pages 184-195
Multiple User Profile Merging (MUPE): Key Challenges for Environment Awareness….Pages 196-206
Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems….Pages 207-217
Shaping the Ambience of Homes with Domestic Hypermedia….Pages 218-229
Tangible Computing in Everyday Life: Extending Current Frameworks for Tangible User Interfaces with Personal Objects….Pages 230-242
End-User Configuration of Ambient Intelligence Environments: Feasibility from a User Perspective….Pages 243-254
VIEWs: Visual Interaction Enriched Windows….Pages 255-266
Information Capture Devices for Social Environments….Pages 267-270
Rich Interaction: Issues….Pages 271-278
From Metaphors to Simulations to Idioms: Supporting the Conceptualisation Process….Pages 279-290
CAMELEON-RT: A Software Architecture Reference Model for Distributed, Migratable, and Plastic User Interfaces….Pages 291-302
A Fair Energy Conserving Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks….Pages 303-314
Distance-Based Access Modifiers Applied to Safety in Home Networks….Pages 315-326
AmbieSense – A System and Reference Architecture for Personalised Context-Sensitive Information Services for Mobile Users….Pages 327-338
Realising the Ambient Intelligence Vision Through the Deployment of Mobile, Intentional Agents….Pages 339-350
Ambient Intelligence Using KGP Agents….Pages 351-362
Services Platforms for Context-Aware Applications….Pages 363-366
Modelling Context: An Activity Theory Approach….Pages 367-374
Confidence Estimation of the State Predictor Method….Pages 375-386
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