Ambient Intelligence Services in IoT Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities

The internet of things (IoT) is quickly growing into a large industry with a huge economic impact expected in the near future. However, the users' needs go beyond the existing web-like services, which do not provide satisfactory intelligence levels. Ambient intelligence services in IoT environments is an emerging research area that can change the way that technology and services are perceived by the users. Ambient Intelligence Services in IoT Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a unique source that systemizes recent trends and advances for service development with such key technological enablers of modern ICT as ambient intelligence, IoT, web of things, and cyber-physical systems. The considered concepts and models are presented using a smart spaces approach with a particular focus on the Smart-M3 platform, which is now shaping into an open source technology for creating ontology-based smart spaces and is shifting towards the development of web of things applications and socio-cyber-physical systems. Containing coverage on a broad range of topics such as fog computing, smart environments, and virtual reality, multitudes of researchers, students, academicians, and professionals will benefit from this timely reference.

Dmitry Korzun received his B.Sc. (1997) and M.Sc (1999) degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU, Russia). He received a Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics from the St.-Petersburg State University (Russia) in 2002. He is an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science of PetrSU (since 2003 and ongoing). He was Visiting Research Scientist at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University, Finland (2005-2014). In 2014-2016 he performed the duties of Vice-dean for Research at Faculty of Mathematics and Information Technology of PetrSU. Since 2014 he has acted as Leading Research Scientist at PetrSU, originating research and development activity within fundamental and applied research projects on emerging topics in ubiquitous computing, smart spaces, and Internet technology. Dmitry Korzun serves on technical program committees and editorial boards of a number of international conferences and journals. His research interests include modeling and evaluation of distributed systems, mathematical modeling and concept engineering of cyber-physical systems, ubiquitous computing and smart spaces, Internet of Things and its applications, software engineering and programming methods, algorithm design and complexity, linear Diophantine analysis and its applications, theory of formal languages and parsing. His educational activity started in 1997 at the Faculty of Mathematics of PetrSU (now Institute of Mathematics and Information Technology). Since that time he has taught more than 20 study courses on hot topics in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Information and Communication Technology, and Software Engineering. He is an author and co-author of more than 150 research and educational publications.

Ekaterina Balandina received her Dipl.-Ing. (2011) and M.Sc. (2013) degrees in Mathematical Provision and Administration of Information Systems. In 2010 Ekaterina won personal Presidential scholar for studies abroad and started her PhD studies at University of Oulu. Later she moved to the Tampere University of Technology, where she is currently finalizing the dissertation. Her research interests include intelligent networks, smart spaces, Internet of Things, location-aware solutions, and protocol design. She is an author of over 25 research publications.

Alexey Kashevnik received his B.Sc. (2003) and M.Sc (2005) degrees in Automated Systems for Information Processing and Control from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (POLYTECH, Russia). He received a Ph.D. degree in Technical Science from the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, Russia) in 2008. He is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Computer Aided Integrated Systems (since 2003) and an Associate Professor (since 2014) at the Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University, Russia). He is part-time Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of PetrSU (since 2012). Alexey Kashevnik is an associate editor of the International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS); advisory board member in Association of Open Innovations FRUCT; Expert of Russian Science Foundation; Expert of National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation JSC, Republic of Kazakhstan, and serves on technical program committees and editorial boards of a number of international conferences. His research interests include smart spaces, Internet of Things, service-based systems, knowledge and context management, ontologies, user profiling, competency management, robotics systems. He is an author and co-author of more than 200 research and educational publications.

Sergey Balandin received his M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from St. Petersburg Electro-Technical University “LETI” (Russia, 1999) and in Telecommunications from Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland, 2000). In 2003 graduated from PhD School of Nokia Research Center and got PhD degree in Telecommunications and Control Theory from St. Petersburg Electro Technical University “LETI”. In 2012 Sergey got MBA degree in Finland. He is a founder and president of FRUCT Association and Adjunct Professor at the Tampere University of Technology. In 1999-2011 Sergey Balandin worked for Nokia Research Center, his last position was Principal Scientist of Ubiquities Architectures team. Sergey is IARIA Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS), invited Professor at ITMO University, and author of over 100 papers and 29 international patents. He also holds expert position in various organizations and international programs, including, EURIPIDES², Skolkovo Foundation, Russian Academy of Science, National State Scientific Center of Kazakhstan, etc. He co-edited several books published in LNCS, IEEE Xplore and IGI. His current research interests include various aspects of Smart Spaces, network and services performance evaluation, and Internet of Things.

Fabio Viola was born in Lecce, Italy, in 1986. He received the Bachelor’s degree in Information Engineering from the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, in 2011, and the Master’s degree and a PhD in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, respectively in 2014 and 2019. His current research interests include semantic technologies for the Internet and Web of Things, Dynamic Linked Data and Big Data architectures.