ARCD 2012 - Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Resource-Constrained Devices

This workshop is aimed at the integration of artificial intelligence technologies in devices with constrained resources (microcontroller, memory, battery, communications, etc.) such as embedded systems, sensors, PDAs, mobile and smart phones.

The integration of intelligent systems in resource-constrained devices is broadly referenced in the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) in which intelligent middleware will allow the creation of dynamic maps of the real world by using a high temporal and spatial resolution.

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), sensor nodes can be used for continuous sensing, event detection, event identification, location sensing and local control of actuators. The range of applications of WSNs is very wide and includes intelligent agriculture, industrial control and monitoring, environmental monitoring systems, surveillance, health monitoring, traffic monitoring, etc. Nowadays, there is a persistent trend to include more and more functionalities into sensors in order to apply them in complex systems. In this sense, sensors with intelligent capabilities have been proposed and several Soft Computing (SC) technologies are being applied to WSNs.