Combining the real world with simulations for a robust testing of Ambient Intelligence services

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 723-746

  Garcia Valverde, Teresa ^a   Serrano, Emilio ^a   Botia, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambient Intelligence; Multi agent based simulations; Testing; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TESTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; GENERAL ARCHITECTURES; MULTI AGENT BASED SIMULATIONS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; SIMULATION APPROACH; VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84938250371     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: 15737462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-012-9340-4     Document Type: Article

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