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Introduction to the thematic issue on Challenges in Engineering Intelligent Environments

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Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments 6 (2014) 487–488 487DOI 10.3233/AIS-140273IOS PressIntroduction to the thematic issueon Challenges in Engineering IntelligentEnvironmentsAsier Aztiria a, Aaron Crandall b and Gordon Hunter c,*a Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spainb Washington State University, USAc Kingston University, UK1. IntroductionThis issue of JAISE is focused on the theme of Chal-lenges in Engineering Intelligent Environments. Sincethe inception of ubiquitous computing, the difficultiesin deploying computing systems in our everyday envi-ronments have been recognized. Computing resources,electrical power consumption, visibility, networking,wireless tools, user interfaces, ad hoc infrastructures,security and other issues of concern have long beentargets of continued research and engineering efforts.Intelligent Environments have been strong candi-dates for bringing limited prototype/pilot versions ofthe ubiquitous computing concept into everyday use.Applications in the fields of healthcare, automation,education, energy efficiency, and working environ-ments have all seen notable successes. As ‘big data’and large scale analytics have been brought to bear onthese types of tools, new issues relating to data storage,machine learning, and privacy have been exposed.The research community targeting these fields hasrepeatedly sought high quality engineering solutionsto problems arising in smart environments. This the-matic issue was proposed and compiled to bring to-gether exemplars of problems engineering teams face,the research approaches to building better smart en-vironments, and to enhance awareness of how theseproblems might be overcome. The editors have soughtout papers in areas including: middleware, softwareengineering, machine learning, sensors and systems,and user experience to demonstrate the diversity of*Corresponding author. E-mail: G.Hunter@kingston.ac.uk.methodologies and technologies being applied to solvesmart environment problems.With the new push towards achieving the ‘Inter-net of Things’ (IoT) paradigm, addressing and sur-mounting these issues become ever more important.The Guest Editors of this JAISE thematic issue, Gor-don Hunter, Aaron Crandall and Asier Aztiria, havesought to make this a relevant, timely and interestingcollection of articles for the Ambient Intelligence andSmart Environments community. We cannot show thefull scope of the work being done to overcome engi-neering challenges in smart environments in a singleissue of the journal, and we look forward to hearingfrom readers about other areas and problems that needaddressing if the field is to truly bring smart environ-ments to achieve their full promise and potential in ourdaily lives.2. In this thematic issueIn the paper ‘Managing Home Care with LooseGoals and Policies’, the focus is on the goals and poli-cies that are used for managing systems in a flexi-ble way without requiring specialised technical knowl-edge. The authors present an approach to automatedhome care management that considers loose goals andpolicies which accommodate probabilistic interpreta-tions and analysis of system inputs/outputs and fuzzi-ness in rules.The paper ‘DOMeMan: A Holistic Frameworkfor Digital Object Memories’ introduces the conceptof digital object memories (DOMe), that enhance the1876-1364/14/$27.50 c© 2014 – IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved488 A. Aztiria et al. / Introduction to the thematic issue on Challenges in Engineering Intelligent EnvironmentsIoT concept by attaching a virtual storage space toeach physical object. This allows the collection of allobject-related information generated along the entirelife-cycle chain of this object. In this paper, the authorspresent a framework based on a structured data modeland a set of tools to create new, and to migrate existing,applications to digital object memories.The paper entitled ‘Managing Adaptive SpokenDialogue for Intelligent Environments’ presentsHIS-OwlSpeak, a model-driven dialogue manager forIntelligent Environments. The authors consider differ-ent modes of dialogue control, rule-based and prob-abilistic, for internal adaptivity. For these, a HiddenInformation State (HIS) approach, featuring inherenthandling of uncertainty in dialogue systems, is appliedto a model-driven dialogue manager.In ‘Learning Distributed Deployment and Con-figuration Trade-offs for Context-Aware Applica-tions in Intelligent Environments’, the authors pro-pose a modular design philosophy for smart IoT ap-plications that enables a more optimal deploymentof such systems. The authors present and validate amethodology to inspect and learn the trade-offs of dif-ferent deployment schemes for IoT applications, in or-der to allow autonomous optimization of their config-urations.AcknowledgementsThe guest editors wish to thank all the reviewers fortheir valuable contributions to this thematic issue. Ad-ditionally, we gratefully acknowledge the support andguidance of the editorial staff of JAISE. Finally, wewould like to express our great appreciation to all theauthors for their high-quality submissions that madethis thematic issue possible.

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