Evidential fusion of sensor data for activity recognition in smart homes

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 236-252

  Hong, Xin ^a   Nugent, Chris ^a   Mulvenna, Maurice ^a   McClean, Sally ^a   Scotney, Bryan ^a   Devlin, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Context aware; Evidential reasoning; Sensor fusion; Smart homes; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; FORMAL LOGIC; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; CONTEXT-AWARE; EVIDENTIAL REASONING; SENSOR FUSION; SMART HOMES; UNCERTAINTY;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 67349266835     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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