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An ambient intelligence architecture for extracting knowledge from distributed sensors

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Alessandra De Paola,

Salvatore Gaglio,

Giuseppe Lo Re,

Marco OrtolaniAuthors Info & Claims

ICIS '09: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human

Pages 104 - 109

https://doi.org/10.1145/1655925.1655945

Published: 24 November 2009 Publication History

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Precisely monitoring the environmental conditions is an essential requirement for AmI projects, but the wealth of data generated by the sensing equipment may easily overwhelm the modules devoted to higher-level reasoning, clogging them with irrelevant details. The present work proposes a new approach to knowledge extraction from raw data that addresses this issue at different levels of abstraction. Wireless sensor networks are used as the pervasive sensory tool, and their computational capabilities are exploited to remotely perform preliminary data processing. A central intelligent unit subsequently extracts higher-level concepts represented in a geometrical space and carries on symbolic reasoning based on them. The same tiered architecture is replicated in order to provide further levels of abstraction.

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An ambient intelligence architecture for extracting knowledge from distributed sensors
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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ICIS '09: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human

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DOI:10.1145/1655925

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ETRI, Korea
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Dongguk University, Korea
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Franz I. S. Ko
Dongguk University, Korea/IBC, UK
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Kae Dal Kwack
Hanyang University, Korea
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Jong Hyung Lee
Gumi Electronics & Information Technology Research Institute, Korea
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University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
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Waseda University, Japan
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
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Zhejiang University, China
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KISTI, Korea
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