Validating ambient intelligence based ubiquitous computing systems by means of artificial societies

Information Sciences

Volumn 222, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-24

  Serrano, Emilio ^a   Botia, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Forensic analysis; Social simulations; Ubiquitous computing; Validation; Verification

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC ANALYSIS; MULTI-AGENT BASED SIMULATIONS; PERVASIVE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SIMULATIONS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS; VALIDATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VERIFICATION;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84870055316     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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