Next Generation Intelligent Environments Ambient Adaptive Systems
Intelligent environments represent an emerging topic in research. Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems will cover all key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptive systems. It focuses on the results worked out
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Tobias Heinroth • Wolfgang Minker Editors
Next Generation Intelligent Environments Ambient Adaptive Systems
Editors Tobias Heinroth Institute of Information Technology University of Ulm Albert-Einstein-Allee 43 89081 Ulm Germany [email protected]
Wolfgang Minker Institute for Information Technology University of Ulm Albert-Einstein-Allee 43 89081 Ulm Germany [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4614-1298-4 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-1299-1 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1299-1 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011936128 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.
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Foreword I
Recent advances in Intelligent Environments research give a glimpse into the future of our planet and reveal exciting visions of smart everything – smart cities, smart homes, smart workplaces, smart hotels, smart schools, and much more. Driven by technological evolution offering low power many-things and wireless almosteverything (e.g., IEEE 802.15.4 radio, wireless sensor networks, sensor platforms), we could, in only a decade, envision and prototype impressive cyber-physical systems and applications. In most of these systems, the goal has been clear and convincing, and the technology proved to be promising and exciting. But prototyping is only a beginning, and much remains to be innovated and done before such Intelligent Environments (IE) become common places. Many research disciplines must collaborate among and within themselves, including domain experts (of the particular environment, e.g., gerontologist for assisted living spaces), behaviour scientists, engineers, computer scientists, to mention just a few. Collaboration within the computer science and engineering discipline is key to the success of IE. Systems support and middleware are essential foundation to building any systems – IE are no exception. Software engineering is urgently needed to understand and support the full life-cycle of IE. New programming models are also needed for developing safe and adaptive applications and services. New notions of trust must be formulated and supported to ensure symbiotic relationship between the users and their environments. Understanding human computer interaction is crucial and in s
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