This chapter presents how the concepts of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) can be used to optimize the role of personas and scenarios in the development and evaluation of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems and services, especially in aspects related to human functioning and health conditions.

Personas and Scenarios Based on Functioning and Health Conditions

This paper makes three contributions to assist households to control their home devices in an easy way and to simplify the software installation and configuration processes across multi-vendor environments. First, a Home Environment Service Knowledge Management System is proposed, which is based on the knowledge implemented by ontology and uses the inference function of reasoner to find out available software services according to household requests. Second, this paper provides a concrete methodology to exploit and acquire conflict-free information from ontology knowledge by using a reasoner. At last, a strategy of calculating the sequence of service dependency hierarchy is proposed by this paper.

Home Environment Service Knowledge Management System

This chapter describes a systematic review that summarizes and characterizes existing literature on ambient assisted living (AAL). This presents an added value for the future development in this area. To be included in this review, articles must have defined innovative concepts or characterized innovative technologies, products, or systems that can contribute to the development of the AAL paradigm, with the aim of enabling people with specific demands (e.g., elderly) to live longer in their natural environment. AAL could therefore be translated best as intelligent systems of assistance for a better and safer life. Results indicate that most publications regarding AAL are technology-oriented with only a few articles found describing applications and scenarios. Another interesting finding is the effort made to adjust the technology to the characteristics and needs of the user considering the context in which the activity is taking place. Key WoRdS: ambient assisted living, elderly, intelligent systems systematic reviews.

Characterization and Classification of Existing Ambient Assisted Living Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Existing Ambient Assisted Living Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

This thesis focuses the efforts on ensuring the reliability of transport networks and takes advantages and experiences from the transport networks into the networks for particular purposes. Firstly, the challenges of providing reliable multicast services on Multipath Label Switching-Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) ring networks are addressed. Through the proposed protection structure and protection switching schemes, the recovery mechanism is enhanced in terms of recovery label consumption, operation simplicity and fine traffic engineering granularity. Furthermore, the extensions for existing and proposed protection schemes on the interconnected-ring structure are presented, which not only fulfill the requirements suggested by ITU and IETF organizations, but also increase the scalability and applicability of the transport ring networks. Secondly, avionic transport networks are investigated, aiming at enabling the full exploitation of key optical networking technologies in future aircrafts. A three-layered optical transport networks over a ring topology is suggested, as it can provide full reconfiguration flexibility and support a wide range of avionic applications. According to different levels of criticality and security, there are certain physical or logical segregation requirements between the avionic systems. Such segregations can be implemented on the proposed avionic networks with different hierarchies. In order to fulfill the segregation requirements, a tailored heuristic approach for solving the wavelength and fiber assignment problem is proposed and implemented for avionic optical transport networks. Simulation results give out resource consumptions and prove the efficiency of the proposed mechanisms. Finally, a Home Environment Service Knowledge Management sys-

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Next Generation Reliable Transport Networks

When a transmitter sends information signals time multiplexed in a single channel over a coaxial cable to a receiver, the expense necessary for synchronizing the demultiplexing operations to the multiplexing operations at the transmitter and for supplying the current necessary to energize the receiver is reduced by impressing or interposing pulses on or into the multiplex signal at the transmitter for synchronization and current supply at the receiver. 12 V pulses are transmitted at low impedance either as frame pulses at the beginning or at the end of a signal pulse frame of the multiplex signal or supplementarily as clock pulses between successive signal samples in the multiplex signal.

Michael Caragiozidis

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A COMPONENT-BASED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE - Reconfigurable Software for Ambient Intelligent Networked Services Environments