Facing the relative lag of forest ecosystem service and estimation in China, this paper proposed to quickly carry out the research on the evaluation of forest ecosystem service. On the basis of the classification of forest ecosystem types in China, the service of artificial and semi-artificial forest ecosystems was investigated, which was divided into eight types, i.e., timber and other product...

Many business models for smart products, like pay-per-use, require that the smart product can digitally verify whether the user has a contract with the smart product and should be granted access to privileged functionality. Traditional means to do so, e.g. password login, are very obtrusive and can thus not be applied for smart product scenarios. In this paper, we present the mechanism of assoc...

Service personalization is an important goal for any smart environment. Comfort systems may be adjusted in an automatic way when a given user is present, and multimedia devices may offer a music or movie catalog with favorite contents or may even pick one of them for the user. To achieve this goal, we propose a Service Oriented Architecture implementation based on multiagent systems. We special...

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A Smart TV integrates Internet and Web features into a TV, as well convergence between computer and TV and can utilize as a computer. Smart TV devices facilitate the curation of content by combining Internet-based information with content from TV providers. Many techniques, such as those that focus on speech, gestures, and eye movement, have been used to develop various human computer interface...

Background. It cannot be denied that sport ecosystem consists of complex stakeholders. According to that, smart orchestration was needed to permit integration and promote active cross-sectoral. It required a suitable strategy to integrate and engage the entire system at any individual group, enterprise-level, and public sector. Therefore, the practical strategy will engage the entire system, so...

Editors: Patrick McDaniel, mcdanielcse.psu.edu. Smith, swscs.dartmouth.edu. COPublished by the ieee COmPuter and. Global electrical grids are verging on the largest technological transformation since the introduction of electricity into the home. The antiquated.tiple new challenges in terms of security and privacy. However, whilst the AMI is a critical part of the smart grid infrastructure, it ...