Smart Environments (eBook)

DIANE J. COOK, PhD, is a professor in the Department of ComputerScience and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington,where she leads the MavHome smart home project and directs theArtificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. A senior member of theIEEE and member of the American Association for ArtificialIntelligence, she also sits on the Board of Governors for theIEEE's Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. SAJAL K. DAS, PhD, is a professor in the Department of ComputerScience and Engineering and Founding Director of the Center forResearch in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at theUniversity of Texas at Arlington. He is the coauthor of MobileWireless Computing: A Quantitative Approach.

Contributors.

Foreword by (Howard E. Shrobe).

Acknowledgements.

PART 1: INTRODUCTION.

1. Overview (D. Cook & S. Das).

PART 2: TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART ENVIRONMENTS.

2. Wireless Sensor Networks (F. Lewis).

3. Power Line Communication Technologies (H. Latchman & A.Mundi).

4. Wireless Communications and Pervasive Technology (M.Conti).

5. Middleware (G. Youngblood).

6. Home Networking and Appliances (D. Marples & S.Moyer).

PART 3: ALGORITHMS AND PROTOCOLS FOR SMART ENVIRONMENTS.

7. Designing for the Human Experience in Smart Environments (G.Abowd & E. Mynatt).

8. Prediction Algorithms foor Smart Environments (D. Cook).

9. Location Estimation (Determination and Prediction) Techniquesin Smart Environments (A. Misra & S. Das).

10. Automated Decision Making (M. Huber).

11. Privacy, Security, and Trust Issues in Smart Environments(P. Nixon, et al.).

PART 4: APPLICATIONS.

12. Lessons from an Adaptive Home (M. Mozer).

13. Smart Rooms (A. Chen, et al.).

14. Smart Offices (C. Gal).

15. Perceptual Environments (A. Pentland).

16. Assistive Environments for Individuals with Special Needs(A. Helal, et al.).

PART 5: CONCLUSIONS.

17. Ongoing Challenges and Future Directions (S. Das & D.Cook).

Index.

"...useful [for]....students and researchers in theengineering, computer science, and psychology areas."(E-STREAMS, May 2006)

"...provides encyclopedic coverage of many possibleaspects...a nice general overview of different aspects of smartenvironments." (Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems,Vol. 16, No. 3, 2005)

"...it was quite important to come up with this book, inorder to move this knowledge out of the same loop, and disseminateit to a larger audience, which will benefit from research on smartenvironments." (Computing Reviews.com, May 5, 2005)

"With contributions from leading researchers in a wide array ofdisciplines, this book presents the state of the art in thisemerging field." (Computer Magazine, January 2005)