Designing Smart Homes The Role of Artificial Intelligence /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Augusto, Juan Carlos (Editor), Nugent, Chris D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4008
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Society.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

The area of smart homes is fast developing as an emergent area which attracts the synergy of several areas of science. This volume offers a collection of contributions addressing how artificial intelligence (AI), one of the core areas of computer science, can bring the growing area of smart homes to...

Table of Contents:

• Smart Homes Can Be Smarter
• Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Smart Homes
• Temporal Constraints with Multiple Granularities in Smart Homes
• Causal Reasoning for Alert Generation in Smart Homes
• Plans and Planning in Smart Homes
• Temporal Data Mining for Smart Homes
• Cases, Context, and Comfort: Opportunities for Case-Based Reasoning in Smart Homes
• Application of Decision Trees to Smart Homes
• Artificial Neural Networks in Smart Homes
• A Multi-agent Approach to Controlling a Smart Environment.