A variety of information processing and decision support tasks (especially in the context of smart city or smart tourist destination) rely both on the automated and human-based procedures. The article proposes a multi-layer cloud environment that, first, unifies various kinds of resources used...

Popularity of research in the area of robotics over the last years opens new tasks to develop in the area of intelligent behavior of robots for coalition creation and joint tasks solving by them. The article presents an approach to ontology-based mobile robots interaction for coalition creation....

"This book focus on Smart Spaces architecture that delivers new kinds of smart services by directly utilizing processing and storage capabilities of the surrounding devices. A central role in this architecture is given to the personal mobile device, e.g., smartphone or tablet"--

"This book examines recent trends and advances for service development with key technological enablers of modern information and communication technologies such as ambient intelligence services, the internet of things, the web of things, and cyber-physical systems"--