Constructing Ambient Intelligence AmI 2007 Workshops Darmstadt, Germ
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops of the First European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2007, held in Darmstadt, Germany, in November 2007. The papers are organized in topical sections on AI methods for ambient intell
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Max Mühlhäuser Alois Ferscha Erwin Aitenbichler (Eds.)
Constructing Ambient Intelligence AmI 2007 Workshops Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007 Revised Papers
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Volume Editors Max Mühlhäuser Erwin Aitenbichler Technische Universität Darmstadt Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: {max, erwin}@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Alois Ferscha Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008932557 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.4, C.2, D.4.6, H.5, I.2, K.4 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1865-0929 3-540-85378-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-85378-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
A foreword for the present workshop proceedings cannot be provided without first looking at the larger context of the AMI conference in which the workshops were organized. The AMI 2007 conference has roots in preceding events, but in many respects, AMI can be called a novel conference format and hence a premiere. Among the several aims that inspired and shaped this new conference format, the following two are particularly worth considering: (1) to provide a forum for the ambient intelligence flavor of research on the Post-PC era of computer science, complementing the ubiquitous computing and pervasive computing flavors emphasized by alreadyexisting conferences; (2) to offer an event that attracts contributions from all over the globe yet emphasizes European strengths – with particular reference to the Information Society Technologies (IST) branch of the EU research framework programs (FPs), which carry the same label as the conference. The workshop organization chairs reflected these unique characteristics of the new AMI conference series in the call for workshop proposals using two corresponding measures: (1) by particularly soliciting workshops on in-depth topics corresponding to the above-mentioned ambient intelligence flavor of Post-PC research; (2) by offering two different workshop threads: one ‘usual’ thread for advanced topics (called “SW workshops”) and one thread for workshops related to concrete EU FP6 and FP7 projects (called “EU workshops”).
