Smart service systems – that is, configurations of smart products and providers deliver services are striving to increase the smartness their offering, but potential consequences for customer well-being largely overlooked. Therefore, this research investigates impact on (here, self-efficacy technology anxiety) through (1) engagement with different system actors providers) (2) perceptions person...

Smart hydrogels, or stimuli-responsive hydrogels, are three-dimensional networks composed of crosslinked hydrophilic polymer chains that are able to dramatically change their volume and other properties in response to environmental stimuli such as temperature, pH and certain chemicals. Rapid and significant response to environmental stimuli and high elasticity are critical for the versatility o...

Smart cards are credit card-sized plastic cards with an integrated microcontroller chip. This chip is protected against physical and logical tampering, thus unauthorized access to internal data structures is virtually impossible. This makes a smart card an excellent device for storing secret cryptographic keys and other sensitive data. In practice, smart cards are used for applications like dig...

In this paper, we investigate how Cognitive Radio as a means of communication can be utilized to serve a smart grid deployment end to end, from a home area network to power generation. We show how Cognitive Radio can be mapped to integrate the possible different communication networks within a smart grid large scale deployment. In addition, various applications in smart grid are defined and dis...

To enable efficient browsing and interactive querying of very large collections, such as those found in digital libraries, it is essential to provide users with summaries of query result sets. Smart indexes can be used to generate summary statistics, aggregated classification information, and/or aggregated contentbased information for the result sets of arbitrary queries. We present the basic m...

With the advent of the smart city paradigm, modern cities have become complex systems of systems with a host of increasingly entangled dependencies and interactions among systems as well as stakeholders from multiple different domains. Efficient design, engineering, and operation of such systems is challenging due to the large number of involved stakeholders and their requirements, which might ...

Framework and Evaluation Vivek Menon, Bharat Jayaraman, and Venu Govindaraju 1 Amrita University, Coimbatore 641 105, India vivek [email protected] 2 University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA [email protected], [email protected] Abstract. We present an abstract framework for ‘smart indoor environments’ that are monitored unobtrusively by biometrics capture devices, such as...