AmI4IoT 2019 : Trends and Advances in Ambient Intelligence for the Internet of Things, Special Issue of Sensors

Owing mainly to the recent advances in wireless communication and embedded
computing technologies, billions of devices, from tiny wireless sensors to
powerful data centre nodes, are now connected to each other over the
Internet, forming what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). At the
same time, ambient intelligence (AmI), a new paradigm of human–computer
interaction, powered by the developments in artificial intelligence,
promises to transform our living environments into intelligent spaces that
will support us in our everyday tasks and activities in an adaptive,
seamless and unobtrusive fashion. Leveraging the enhanced connectivity of
the Internet of Things and the growing capabilities of ambient intelligence
technologies will lead to the development of a new generation of more
advanced and larger-scale solutions for several application domains such as
healthcare, education, culture, transportation, energy management,
emergency services and others.

In order to maximize the benefits that the technology has to offer, one has
to tailor ambient intelligence methodologies, systems and techniques in a
way that realizes the notion of “from data to intelligent action”. Data
from IoT sensors need to be analysed in an intelligent way, enabling
reasoning about goals and actions to be efficiently communicated to the IoT
actuators in a resilient and versatile scheme that realizes the smart
environment vision.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present the latest trends, research
solutions, developments and applications that combine methods, techniques
and technologies from the Internet of Things and ambient intelligence,
demonstrating the potential of combining these two lines of research.

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Topics
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Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted by another
journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the
following Ambient Intelligence methods applied to IoT, including methods
for:

- activity recognition
- ambient agent architectures
- context-aware learning
- context-aware reasoning
- context-aware planning
- context-aware recommendation
- contextual modelling
- multimodal data analysis
- non-invasive/seamless interaction
- privacy/security/trust management
- user modelling
- smart energy management
- non-intrusive load monitoring
- AmI & IoT applications (e.g. for assisted living, emergency services,
smart homes, smart cities, etc.)

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More information about the Special Issue can be found at:
https://www.mdpi.com/si/20996

More information about the Sensors journal can be found at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors

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Schedule
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Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2019


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Guest Editors
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Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
nbassili AT csd.auth.gr

Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK
a.bikakis AT ucl.ac.uk

Dimitris Vrakas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
dvrakas AT csd.auth.gr