The IEC 61499 standard defines an architecture and software tool requirements for the encapsulation, embedding, deployment and integration of intellectual property (IP) in intelligent devices, machines and systems. A reference framework and engineering methodology is presented for the use of IEC 61499 in the design, development, simulation, testing and implementation of distributed control and ...

Existing and emerging technologies in the areas of mobile computing, wireless communications/ networking, sensor and control devices, context awareness, user interfaces, etc., provide the ground for the support of human activities in a certain space. More specifically, these recent advances now allow the gradual Bdisappearance^ of computers and/or other end-user devices into the environment cre...

Intelligent assistants on mobile devices, such as Siri, have recently gained considerable attention as novel applications of dialogue technologies. A tremendous amount of real users of intelligent assistants provide us with an opportunity to explore a novel task of predicting whether users will continually use their intelligent assistants in the future. We developed prediction models of prospec...

Motivation: The Intelligent Room is a complex synergy of software agents, hardware devices, and human researchers. New features are added daily, which increases the capability and functionality of the Intelligent Room. Unfortunately, the improvements in capability and functionality come at a cost of increased complexity. For example, there are more than a half dozen ways of turning on the light...

Electronic contracting as an object of legal studies is getting more and more complex. Computers are currently being used not only as a way of searching and processing information, but also as communication tools, as automatic operators and already as a way of developing and accessing new forms of intelligent behaviour through the use of intelligent devices. New ways of electronic contracting h...