In this paper, we present a context-aware service platform called Synapse and its simple smart home test bed. By exploiting the recorded histories of contexts and services, Synapse can learn different users’ habits. Then Synapse can predict the most relevant services that users will use in the current situation based on their habits, and provide services in Active Mode and Passive Mode. Conside...

This paper discusses an education-centric approach towards ambient intelligence in the classroom, raising fundamental requirements that should be taken into consideration, in order to efficiently provide genuine students’ education enhancement. These requirements are addressed by an integrated architecture for pervasive computing environments, named ClassMATE, which facilitates all necessary me...

GridLite is an extensible framework that provides services to users on ubiquitous, resource-limited devices within a Grid infrastructure. It uses a server infrastructure for provisioning of persistent services, and smart helper services running on the "lite" devices which tap into this infrastructure. One of the goals of GridLite research is to define a Grid architecture which manages these dev...

In this paper, we focus on humor facilitators, a type of humorous agents meant to act as mediators between unexpected events occurring in smart environments and the human agents. More specifically, we present a case study in which fictional ideation and narrative dramatization are combined to achieve humor facilitation. We implemented a test bed for the simulation of an interactive environment....

We present vrFlora which shows adaptive responses suitable for a user’s situation. It perceives the user’s context through ubiTrack detecting the user’s profile, location and orientation, and ubiFlowerpot sensing the user’s manipulation with a physical flowerpot. In addition, it adaptively analyzes the context according to its own characteristics, and then displays customized multimedia content...

existed electricity grids deliver produced power to the consumer passing through transmission and distribution grids. according to high losses of these grids in transmission level and inexistence of bilateral interaction for simultaneous information exchange, a concept of smart grids were made by capabilities such as consciously participation of consumers in the smart electricity grids, an amou...

Recent research suggests that the resurgence of bed bugs in the U.S. has occurred at an alarming rate. Assumptions have been made that socioeconomic status is not associated with the prevalence of bed bug infestations. Little information is available at the local level, however, about the prevalence of bed bugs in private homes. The authors' pilot study aimed to identify prevalence, knowledge, ...

This paper proposes an original Smart-Grid test bed aimed at teaching the IEC 61850 standard to students and professionals. It includes emulation of medium voltage loads generators, with a supervisory control data acquisition system. With this bed, lab classes focused on setup configuration protection relays using semantics xml language are proposed. For this, GOOSE services their functionaliti...