Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems

This book covers key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptive
systems. It focuses on the results worked out within the framework of the
ATRACO (Adaptive and TRusted Ambient eCOlogies) project. The theoretical
background, the developed prototypes, and the evaluated results form a fertile
ground useful for the broad intelligent environments scientific community as
well as for industrial interest groups.

The new edition provides:

• Chapter authors comment
  on their work on ATRACO with final remarks as viewed in retrospective
• Each chapter has been
  updated with follow-up work emerging from ATRACO
• An extensive introduction to
  state-of-the-art statistical dialog management for intelligent
  environments
• Approaches are
  introduced on how Trust is reflected during the dialog with the system