Virtuality And Capabilities In A World Of Ambient Intelligence

Author : Luiz Costa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319391984

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Virtuality and Capabilities in a World of Ambient Intelligence by Luiz Costa Pdf

This book is about power and freedoms in our technological world and has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate that a theoretical exploration of the algorithmic governmentality hypothesis combined with the capability approach is useful for a better understanding of power and freedoms in Ambient Intelligence, a world where information and communication technologies are invisible, interconnected, context aware, personalized, adaptive to humans and act autonomously. The second is to argue that these theories are useful for a better comprehension of privacy and data protection concepts and the evolution of their regulation. Having these objectives in mind, the book outlines a number of theses based on two threads: first, the elimination of the social effects of uncertainty and the risks to freedoms and, second, the vindication of rights. Inspired by and building on the outcomes of different philosophical and legal approaches, this book embodies an effort to better understand the challenges posed by Ambient Intelligence technologies, opening paths for more effective realization of rights and rooting legal norms in the preservation of the potentiality of human capabilities.

Author : Alain Tressaud
Publisher : Springer
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319699745

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Progress in Science, Progress in Society by Alain Tressaud Pdf

This book addresses current societal debates around the globe. Written by respected researchers from France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and Italy, the chapters are based on presentations given at a conference organized by the European Academy of Sciences, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Belgium and French Academy of Sciences, in Brussels (Belgium) in November 2016. The book approaches science and society from a perspective of progress. Does progress in science ultimately translate into progress in society? How can we ensure that scientific progress becomes both materially and intellectually beneficial for society, including people who are far away from or socially excluded from it? Progress is a common feature of science and of human societies. There is no doubt that one of the driving forces of the material and intellectual progress of mankind has been science and technology. However, these are not the only forces acting on human history, so that the role of science and technology is not always fully recognized and sometimes even rejected. The various chapters of this book cover many aspects of these issues, arriving at valuable new insights.

Author : Mark Burdon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417921

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Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law by Mark Burdon Pdf

Calling for future law reform, Burdon questions if you will have privacy in a world of ubiquitous data collection.

Author : Wang Qingyang,Liang-Jie Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031235153

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Services Computing – SCC 2022 by Wang Qingyang,Liang-Jie Zhang Pdf

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Services Computing 2022, SCC 2022, held as part of SCF 2022 during December 10-14, 2022 in Honolulu, USA. The 8 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. It covers the science and technology of leveraging computing and information technology to model, create, operate, and manage business services.

Author : Susanna Lindberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438492599

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From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence by Susanna Lindberg Pdf

From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence can be framed as a metaphysics of the present. It starts from the current epoch, an era increasingly marked not only by technology but also by technics in the most general sense, and asks how this affects human existence. The book asks what is called technics, what is called humanity, how these relate to one another, and how changes in these notions oblige us to revise the philosophical notion of existence. It investigates how the idea of technological humanity—of technology as an extension and instrument of the human—is discovered and deconstructed by Martin Heidegger, Helmuth Plessner, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Giorgio Agamben. Finally, the book presents a new idea of bio-technical existence, one that underlies these philosophers' works without being fully elaborated. This idea—of technics as a condition of humanity that humans share with other living and technical beings—is the author's own philosophical proposition and the final result of the book.

Author : Giuseppe Riva
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1586034901

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Ambient Intelligence by Giuseppe Riva Pdf

The metaphor of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) tries to picture a vision of the future where all of us will be surrounded by 'intelligent' electronic environments, and this ambient has claims to being sensitive and responsive to our needs. Ambient Intelligence without invasion of privacy represents a long-term vision for the EU Information Society Technologies Research programme. A strong multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach is a key requirement for large-scale technology innovation and the development of effective applications. Up to now, most of the books and papers related to AmI focus their analysis on the technology potential only. An important feature of this volume is the link between the technology - through the concepts of ubiquitous computing and intelligent interface - and the human experience of interacting in the world - through a neuro-psychological vision centred on the concept of 'presence'. Presence - the sense of being there - is the experience of projecting one's mind through media to other places, people and designed environments. The combination of recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience - which make it possible to acquire a better understanding of the human aspects of presence, and the breakthroughs at the level of the enabling technologies make it increasingly possible to build novel systems based on this understanding. The goal of this volume is to assess the technologies and processes that are behind the AmI vision, in order to help the development of state-of-the-art applications. More in detail, this volume aims at supporting researchers and scientists, interested in the understanding and exploiting the potential of AmI.

Author : Korzun, Dmitry,Balandina, Ekaterina,Kashevnik, Alexey,Balandin, Sergey,Viola, Fabio
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522589747

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Ambient Intelligence Services in IoT Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Korzun, Dmitry,Balandina, Ekaterina,Kashevnik, Alexey,Balandin, Sergey,Viola, Fabio Pdf

The internet of things (IoT) is quickly growing into a large industry with a huge economic impact expected in the near future. However, the users’ needs go beyond the existing web-like services, which do not provide satisfactory intelligence levels. Ambient intelligence services in IoT environments is an emerging research area that can change the way that technology and services are perceived by the users. Ambient Intelligence Services in IoT Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a unique source that systemizes recent trends and advances for service development with such key technological enablers of modern ICT as ambient intelligence, IoT, web of things, and cyber-physical systems. The considered concepts and models are presented using a smart spaces approach with a particular focus on the Smart-M3 platform, which is now shaping into an open source technology for creating ontology-based smart spaces and is shifting towards the development of web of things applications and socio-cyber-physical systems. Containing coverage on a broad range of topics such as fog computing, smart environments, and virtual reality, multitudes of researchers, students, academicians, and professionals will benefit from this timely reference.

Author : Ernesto Damiani,Jechang Jeong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387887777

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Multimedia Techniques for Device and Ambient Intelligence by Ernesto Damiani,Jechang Jeong Pdf

Ambient Intelligence is a vision of the future where the world will be surrounded by electronic environments sensitive and responsive to people, wherein devices work in concert to support people in carrying out their everyday life activities, in an easy and natural way. This edited volume is based on the workshop Multimedia Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (MTDAI08), held in Mogliano Veneto, Italy in March 2008. Contributed by world renowned leaders in the field from academia and industry, this volume is dedicated to research on technologies used to improve the intelligence capability of multimedia devices for imaging, image processing and computer vision. Focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing, including evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques. Designed for researchers and professionals, this book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering.

Author : José Bravo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031483066

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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2023) by José Bravo Pdf

Author : Susanna Lindberg,Hanna-Riikka Roine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000378627

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The Ethos of Digital Environments by Susanna Lindberg,Hanna-Riikka Roine Pdf

While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished and emerging authors working at the intersections of philosophy, literary theory, media, and technology does not intend to fix new moral rules. Instead, the volume explores the ethos of digital environments, asking how we can orient ourselves in them and inviting us to renewed moral reflection in the face of dilemmas they entail. The authors show how contemporary digital technologies model our perception, narration as well as our conceptions of truth, and investigate the ethical, moral, and juridical consequences of making public and societal infrastructures computational. They argue that we must make the structures of the digital environments visible and learn to care for them.

Author : Hideyuki Nakashima,Hamid Aghajan,Juan Carlos Augusto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387938080

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Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments by Hideyuki Nakashima,Hamid Aghajan,Juan Carlos Augusto Pdf

Our homes anticipate when we want to wake up. Our computers predict what music we want to buy. Our cars adapt to the way we drive. In today’s world, even washing machines, rice cookers and toys have the capability of autonomous decision-making. As we grow accustomed to computing power embedded in our surroundings, it becomes clear that these ‘smart environments’, with a number of devices controlled by a coordinating system capable of ‘ambient intelligence’, will play an ever larger role in our lives. This handbook provides readers with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage in what is a key technological field. . Systematically dealing with each aspect of ambient intelligence and smart environments, the text covers everything, from visual information capture and human/computer interaction to multi-agent systems, network use of sensor data, and building more rationality into artificial systems. The book also details a wide range of applications, examines case studies of recent major projects from around the world, and analyzes both the likely impact of the technology on our lives, and its ethical implications. With a wide variety of separate disciplines all conducting research relevant to this field, this handbook encourages collaboration between disparate researchers by setting out the fundamental concepts from each area that are relevant to ambient intelligence and smart environments, providing a fertile soil in which ground-breaking new work candevelop.

Author : Juan F. De Paz,Vicente Julián,Gabriel Villarrubia,Goreti Marreiros,Paulo Novais
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319611181

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Ambient Intelligence– Software and Applications – 8th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2017) by Juan F. De Paz,Vicente Julián,Gabriel Villarrubia,Goreti Marreiros,Paulo Novais Pdf

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a recent paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence, in which computers are used as proactive tools to assist people with their day-to-day activities, making their lives more comfortable. Another main goal of AmI originates from the human/computer interaction domain and focuses on offering ways to interact with systems in a more natural way by means of user-friendly interfaces. This field is evolving quickly, as can be witnessed by the emerging natural-language-based and gesture-based types of interaction. The inclusion of computational power and communication technologies in everyday objects is growing, and their embeddedness in our environments should be as invisible as possible. In order for AmI to be successful, human interaction with computing power and embedded systems in the surroundings should be smooth and take place without people actually noticing it. The only things people should notice in connection with AmI are more safety, comfort and wellbeing, emerging in a natural and inherent way. ISAmI is the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence and aims to bring together researchers from the various disciplines that constitute the scientific field of Ambient Intelligence to present and discuss the latest results, new ideas, projects and lessons learned, especially in terms of software and applications.

Author : Simon Elias Bibri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789462391307

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The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence by Simon Elias Bibri Pdf

As a socially disruptive technology, Ambient Intelligence is ultimately directed towards humans and targeted at the mundane life made of an infinite richness of circumstances that cannot fully be considered and easily be anticipated. Most books, however, focus their analysis on, or deal largely with, the advancement of the technology and its potential only. This book offers a fresh, up–to–date, and holistic approach to Ambient Intelligence. As such, it addresses the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aspects of the rapidly evolving field of Ambient Intelligence by seamlessly integrating and fusing it with artificial intelligence, cognitive science and psychology, social sciences, and humanities. It is divided into two main parts: Part 1 is about different permutations of enabling technologies as well as core computational capabilities, namely context awareness, implicit and natural interaction, and intelligent behavior. It details the existing and upcoming prerequisite technologies, and elucidates the application and convergence of major current and future computing trends. Part 2 is an accessible review and synthesis of the latest research in the human-directed sciences and computing and how these are intricately interrelated in the realm of Ambient Intelligence. It deals with the state–of–the–art human–inspired applications which show human-like understanding and exhibit intelligent behavior in relation to a variety of aspects of human functioning – states and processes. It describes and elaborates on the rich potential of Ambient Intelligence from a variety of interrelated perspectives and the plethora of challenges and bottlenecks involved in making Ambient Intelligence a reality, and also discusses the established knowledge and recent discoveries in the human–directed sciences and their application and convergence in the ambit of Ambient Intelligence computing. This seminal reference work is the most comprehensive of its kind, and will prove invaluable to students, researchers, and professionals across both computing and the human-directed sciences.

Author : Dmitry Korzun
Publisher : Engineering Science Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1522589759

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Ambient Intelligence Services in IoT Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities by Dmitry Korzun Pdf

The internet of things (IoT) is quickly growing into a large industry with a huge economic impact expected in the near future. However, the users' needs go beyond the existing web-like services, which do not provide satisfactory intelligence levels. Ambient intelligence services in IoT environments is an emerging research area that can change the way that technology and services are perceived by the users. Ambient Intelligence Services in IoT Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a unique source that systemizes recent trends and advances for service development with such key technological enablers of modern ICT as ambient intelligence, IoT, web of things, and cyber-physical systems. The considered concepts and models are presented using a smart spaces approach with a particular focus on the Smart-M3 platform, which is now shaping into an open source technology for creating ontology-based smart spaces and is shifting towards the development of web of things applications and socio-cyber-physical systems. Containing coverage on a broad range of topics such as fog computing, smart environments, and virtual reality, multitudes of researchers, students, academicians, and professionals will benefit from this timely reference.

Author : Curran, Kevin
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466600393

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Innovative Applications of Ambient Intelligence: Advances in Smart Systems by Curran, Kevin Pdf

"This book provides perspectives on the convergence of ubiquitous computing, intelligent systems research, and context awareness with the aim of encouraging the further development of ambient intelligence frameworks and research"--