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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE
Author(s) -
Remagnino Paolo,
Shapiro Daniel
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2007.00312.x
Subject(s) - artificial intelligence , citation , computer science , library science
Ambient intelligence is a term coined in Europe at the turn of the century to identify the methodologies and technologies that enable an environment to better respond to a user’s needs. The core concept is to endow an environment with the computational power sufficient to sense its inhabitants and to interpret their actions and interactions in order to anticipate their needs, supply them with necessary information, and/or to act on their behalves. Ambient intelligence covers a wide spectrum of applications, ranging from entertainment services to safety and security. This special issue introduces the concept of intelligent environments, and explores the algorithms required to build such systems. The articles address a range of applications but emphasize domestic contexts (i.e., smart homes), which have been a major motivator of ambient intelligence research. Taken together, the articles provide a window into the technologies most relevant to this area of research, emphasizing agent-based methods for information fusion, situation recognition, planning, monitoring, and behavior modeling. The issue contains six papers, which we summarize briefly, below: