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Springer Designing Smart Homes The Role Of Artificial Intelligence 2006 Edition by Juan Carlos Augusto, Chris D. Nugent
Smart homes are proving to be 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 a higher level of functionality where homes can truly realize the long standing dream of proactively helping their inhabitants in an intelligent way. 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.