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Context-Awareness in the Internet of Things

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2019) | Viewed by 22171

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Daniele Riboni

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Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: sensor-based activity recognition; hybrid activity recognition methods; recognition of behavioral anomalies; pervasive computing and context awareness; context modeling techniques; privacy in location-based services; privacy in pervasive computing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The emerging integration of objects able to sense, reason and communicate into people's daily lives is enabling a new generation of services, promising to assist users in a number of tasks. In order to be effective, these services must be aware of the user’s context, including not only his/her position, but also the current activity, situation, mood, social context, task and goals, just to name a few. Luckily, objects connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) provide extensive low-level data that can be mined for capturing a fine-grained picture of the user’s context. Integrating and mining IoT data for context-awareness is a hot research topic, which involve challenging issues regarding artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, big data analysis, security, trust, ethics, and privacy. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect high-quality research outcomes that may advance the state of the art about context-awareness in IoT. Original, high quality contributions that have not yet been published, submitted, or are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Statistical, symbolic, and hybrid methods for context-awareness based on sensor data
  • Recognition of activities, moods, and social context in IoT
  • Big data analysis for context awareness
  • IoT-centered methods, applications and middlewares for context-awareness
  • Security, privacy, trust, and ethical issues in context-awareness

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniele Riboni
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Context-awareness in IoT
  • Activity and mood recognition
  • Big data analysis for context-awareness
  • Security and privacy issues in context-awareness
  • Sensor-based context modeling and reasoning

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Physical Unclonable Functions in the Internet of Things: State of the Art and Open Challenges
by Armin Babaei and Gregor Schiele
Sensors 2019, 19(14), 3208; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19143208 - 21 Jul 2019
Cited by 100 | Viewed by 8866
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Attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices are on the rise. Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are proposed as a robust and lightweight solution to secure IoT devices. The main advantage of a PUF compared to the current classical cryptographic solutions is its compatibility [...] Read more.
Attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices are on the rise. Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are proposed as a robust and lightweight solution to secure IoT devices. The main advantage of a PUF compared to the current classical cryptographic solutions is its compatibility with IoT devices with limited computational resources. In this paper, we investigate the maturity of this technology and the challenges toward PUF utilization in IoT that still need to be addressed. Full article
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Action Graphs for Performing Goal Recognition Design on Human-Inhabited Environments
by Helen Harman and Pieter Simoens
Sensors 2019, 19(12), 2741; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19122741 - 18 Jun 2019
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 3989
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Goal recognition is an important component of many context-aware and smart environment services; however, a person’s goal often cannot be determined until their plan nears completion. Therefore, by modifying the state of the environment, our work aims to reduce the number of observations [...] Read more.
Goal recognition is an important component of many context-aware and smart environment services; however, a person’s goal often cannot be determined until their plan nears completion. Therefore, by modifying the state of the environment, our work aims to reduce the number of observations required to recognise a human’s goal. These modifications result in either: Actions in the available plans being replaced with more distinctive actions; or removing the possibility of performing some actions, so humans are forced to take an alternative (more distinctive) plan. In our solution, a symbolic representation of actions and the world state is transformed into an Action Graph, which is then traversed to discover the non-distinctive plan prefixes. These prefixes are processed to determine which actions should be replaced or removed. For action replacement, we developed an exhaustive approach and an approach that shrinks the plans then reduces the non-distinctive plan prefixes, namely Shrink–Reduce. Exhaustive is guaranteed to find the minimal distinctiveness but is more computationally expensive than Shrink–Reduce. These approaches are compared using a test domain with varying amounts of goals, variables and values, and a realistic kitchen domain. Our action removal method is shown to increase the distinctiveness of various grid-based navigation problems, with a width/height ranging from 4 to 16 and between 2 and 14 randomly selected goals, by an average of 3.27 actions in an average time of 4.69 s, whereas a state-of-the-art approach often breaches a 10 min time limit. Full article
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Cross-Device Computation Coordination for Mobile Collocated Interactions with Wearables
by Hyoseok Yoon and Choonsung Shin
Sensors 2019, 19(4), 796; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19040796 - 15 Feb 2019
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 3657
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Mobile devices, wearables and Internet-of-Things are crammed into smaller form factors and batteries, yet they encounter demanding applications such as big data analysis, data mining, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality. To meet such high demands in the multi-device ecology, multiple devices [...] Read more.
Mobile devices, wearables and Internet-of-Things are crammed into smaller form factors and batteries, yet they encounter demanding applications such as big data analysis, data mining, machine learning, augmented reality and virtual reality. To meet such high demands in the multi-device ecology, multiple devices should communicate collectively to share computation burdens and stay energy-efficient. In this paper, we present a cross-device computation coordination method for scenarios of mobile collocated interactions with wearables. We formally define a cross-device computation coordination problem and propose a method for solving this problem. Lastly, we demonstrate the feasibility of our approach through experiments and exemplar cases using 12 commercial Android devices with varying computation capabilities. Full article
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Analysing Cooking Behaviour in Home Settings: Towards Health Monitoring
by Kristina Yordanova, Stefan Lüdtke, Samuel Whitehouse, Frank Krüger, Adeline Paiement, Majid Mirmehdi, Ian Craddock and Thomas Kirste
Sensors 2019, 19(3), 646; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19030646 - 04 Feb 2019
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Wellbeing is often affected by health-related conditions. Among them are nutrition-related health conditions, which can significantly decrease the quality of life. We envision a system that monitors the kitchen activities of patients and that based on the detected eating behaviour could provide clinicians [...] Read more.
Wellbeing is often affected by health-related conditions. Among them are nutrition-related health conditions, which can significantly decrease the quality of life. We envision a system that monitors the kitchen activities of patients and that based on the detected eating behaviour could provide clinicians with indicators for improving a patient’s health. To be successful, such system has to reason about the person’s actions and goals. To address this problem, we introduce a symbolic behaviour recognition approach, called Computational Causal Behaviour Models (CCBM). CCBM combines symbolic representation of person’s behaviour with probabilistic inference to reason about one’s actions, the type of meal being prepared, and its potential health impact. To evaluate the approach, we use a cooking dataset of unscripted kitchen activities, which contains data from various sensors in a real kitchen. The results show that the approach is able to reason about the person’s cooking actions. It is also able to recognise the goal in terms of type of prepared meal and whether it is healthy. Furthermore, we compare CCBM to state-of-the-art approaches such as Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and decision trees (DT). The results show that our approach performs comparable to the HMM and DT when used for activity recognition. It outperformed the HMM for goal recognition of the type of meal with median accuracy of 1 compared to median accuracy of 0.12 when applying the HMM. Our approach also outperformed the HMM for recognising whether a meal is healthy with a median accuracy of 1 compared to median accuracy of 0.5 with the HMM. Full article
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