ELE 2017 - Enhanced Living Environments: From Models to Technologies 2016

Enhanced Living Environments: From Models to Technologies,
To be published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology / SciTech Publishing
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Chapter Proposal Submission Due Date: 20 February 2016.
Editors of the IET Book “Enhanced Living Environments: From Models to Technologies" invite submissions containing Original, High Quality Ideas that are relevant to the SCOPE OF THE BOOK. The chapter proposal may kindly be sent in PDF or Word format.
Introduction
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The increase in medical expenses due to societal issues like demographic ageing puts strong pressure on the sustainability of health and social care systems, on labour participation, and on quality of life for elderly and/or people with disabilities. The Enhanced Living Environment (ELE) paradigm encompasses all information and communication technological achievements (ICT) supporting true Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). ELE promotes the provision of infrastructures and services for independent or more autonomous living, via the seamless integration of ICT within homes and residences, thus increasing their quality of life and autonomy, maintaining one’s home the preferable living environment for as long as possible, therefore not causing disruption in the web of social and family interactions.
Objective of the Book
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A revolution is occurring today in terms of how AAL/ELE technology is being designed, prototyped, and manufactured, as a broad set of researchers and users now have access to a host of digital fabrication tools and techniques that empower them to create new devices and realise new concepts more quickly, cheaply, and easily. Still, many fundamental issues remain open. Most efforts towards the realisation of AAL systems are based on developing pervasive devices and use Ambient Intelligence to integrate these devices together to construct a safety environment. Many fundamental issues in ELE remain open. Most of the current efforts still do not fully express the power of human being and the importance of social connections. Therefore, the societal activities are less noticed. Effective ELE solutions require appropriate ICT algorithms, architectures and platforms, having in view the advance of science in this area and the development of new and innovative networking solutions (particularly in the area of pervasive and mobile systems). This book aims to provide, in this sense, a platform for the dissemination of research efforts and presentation of advances in the ELE area by addressing these challenges. The objective is to constitute a flagship driver towards presenting and supporting advance research in the area of Enhanced Living Environments.
The book’s mission is to make readers familiar with those concepts and technologies that are successfully used in the implementation of today's AAL/ELE systems, or have a good chance to be used in future developments. The approach is to not separate the theoretical concepts concerning the design of such systems from their real-world implementations. For each important topic that one should master, the book aims to play the role of a bridge between theory and practice, and of an instrument needed by professionals in their activity. For this aim, the topics will be presented in a logical sequence, and the introduction of each topic will be motivated by the need to respond to claims and requirements coming from a wide range of AAL/ELE applications. The advantages and limitations of each model or technology in terms of capabilities and areas of applicability will be presented through practical case studies for AAL/ELE systems and applications.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Chapters should be written in a manner readable for both specialists and non-specialists.
Recommended topic areas include, but are not limited to:
- Introduction to the AAL and ELE systems: an introduction to the area and topics covered by these subjects.
- Sensing and Monitoring: identification and sensing technologies, activity recognition, risks and accidents detection, tele-mobile monitoring, diet and exercise monitoring, drugs monitoring, vital signs supervision, identification of daily activities, etc.
- ICT instrumentation, middleware and cloud support for smart environments: Body Area Networks (BANs), Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) and 2D codes for real-world labelling, smart sensors, wearable computing, custom made Internet-connected objects, semantic middleware infrastructure (semantic web, OSGi, DLNA, DPWS, home automation standards), mobile cloud, etc.
- Human-Computer Interaction within AAL environments: ubiquitous and mobile interfaces, multi-modal interaction, context-aware frameworks and sensing (context modelling, user-centricity, automatic-generation of user interfaces, sentient computing, knowledge-based approach, affective and social interfaces, etc.).
- Environment adaptation based on intelligence: knowledge representation and management for user- and environment modelling and understanding (ontologies, semantic web, logic, expert systems, cognitive systems, non-logical reasoning, multi-agent systems), autonomic computing, responsive, proactive and dynamically reconfigurable systems, ontologies for user and environment modelling and understanding, learning, reasoning and adaptation techniques over context models, collaborative smart objects.
- Intelligent healthcare and homecare environments: ambient intelligence for AAL, e-Learning/m-Learning for AAL, artificial intelligence techniques for AAL, context-awareness in assistive environments, modelling of human activity and behaviour for providing timely assistance, collaborative systems for AAL, decision support systems.
- ELE architectures and platforms: smart and supervised homes, medical remote monitoring, hospital communication management for AAL, living labs.
- Key applications domains: Ambient and Assisted Living, smart devices and intelligent products, smart environments, assistive environments, e-Care, e-Health/m-Health, environmental control systems, technology to realize smart and assistive environments, experiences with existing smart and assistive environments.
Chapter Proposal Submission
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Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit, by email:
- chapter proposal (max. 2 pages) with title, authors, chapter mission and topic(s) addressed by 20 February, 2016 and
- full chapters by 19 June 2016.
Chapters should be of around 20-25 pages in length. Authors may submit extended versions of their recent conference publication, however, it is required that the chapter submission will have additional research contribution of at least 30% new content.
Please follow the manuscript formatting guidelines below to submit the original version in Microsoft Word or LaTex format:
- http://cipsm.hpc.pub.ro/IET/AuthorGuidev1.0.pdf
- http://cipsm.hpc.pub.ro/IET/IETLaTex_Readme.docx
- http://cipsm.hpc.pub.ro/IET/IETLaTex_template.zip
Each final manuscript should be 20-25 pages long (formatted). Depending on the number of submissions, longer manuscripts will be also accepted.
The Chapter Proposal for the book may kindly be sent to the editors, by email. All chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind basis. The book is to be published in by IET- publication is expected to be released in first semester of 2017.
Important Dates
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20 February 2016: Submission of Proposal (max. 2 pages)
20 March 2016: Notification of Acceptance
19 June 2016: Full Chapter Submission (in Word or PDF)
11 September 2016: Notification of Full Chapter Acceptance
27 October 2016: Revised Chapter Submission
Editors Contact Information
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Ciprian Dobre
E-Mail: ciprian.dobre-AT-cs.pub.ro
University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Carlos Valderrama
E-Mail: carlos.valderrama-AT-umons.ac.be
University of Mons, Belgium
Ivan Ganchev
E-Mail: Ivan.Ganchev-AT-ul.ie
University of Limerick, Ireland
Nuno Garcia
E-Mail: ngarcia-AT-di.ubi.pt
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Rossitza Ivanova Goleva
E-Mail: rig-AT-tu-sofia.bg
Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
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Chapter Proposal Submission
Due Date: 20 February 2016.
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