The success of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) will depend on how secure it can be made, how privacy and other rights of individuals can be protected and how individuals can come to trust the intelligent world that surrounds them and through which they move. This contribution presents an analysis of ambient intelligence scenarios, particularly in regard to AmI’s impacts on and implications for indiv...

Spend your few moment to read a book even only few pages. Reading book is not obligation and force for everybody. When you don't want to read, you can get punishment from the publisher. Read a book becomes a choice of your different characteristics. Many people with reading habit will always be enjoyable to read, or on the contrary. For some reasons, this safeguards in a world of ambient intell...

Ambient Intelligence Systems are complex, knowledge providing systems. The group of intended users typically comprises both various kinds of professionals and of laymen. In this chapter we address responsibility issues associated with the use and design of AmISs. We explain the connection between knowledge and responsibility, and use that connection to show that the usage of Ambient Intelligenc...

In this study, real-time measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) was conducted at an urban site in Changzhou, a typical corridor city the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region China, by Proton−Transfer−Reaction Time−of−Flight Mass Spectrometry (PTR−ToF−MS) during 2019 China International Import Expo (CIIE) episode. An improved method based on Air Quality Index (AQI) value is applied to iden...

From 01.05.05 to 04.05.05, the Dagstuhl Seminar 05181 Mobile Computing and Ambient Intelligence: The Challenge of Multimedia was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as ...

Even though ontologies are widely being used to enable interoperability in information-rich endeavours, there is currently no unified framework for ontology interoperability itself. Surprisingly little of the state of the art in modularity and structuring, e.g. in software engineering, has been applied to ontology engineering so far. However, application areas like Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)...

This paper discusses the possibility of using embodied Ambient Displays for presenting information in a public setting. For embodying an Ambient Display, a Nabaztag rabbit was used, the information displayed was a weather forecast. Throughout four weeks of alternating traditional visual Ambient Displays and Nabaztag testing, differences and commonalities in terms of perceived usability and like...

this article examines the political turmoil, iran foreign policy, great powers interventions with especial reference to firqa-yi dimukrat azarbayejan and oil crisis between 1941-1947. this article also deals with the international reaction, the role of the united nations, and that of the prime minister, qavam, who concluded agreements with the firqa-yi dimukrat lead-ers and the ussr. the succe...