nowadays, environment-sensitive smart drug delivery systems have found diverse applications in pharmaceutical science and technology. these systems can respond to the environment stimuli such as temperature, pressure, ph, light, electrical and magnetical fields and etc. they can release the proper amount of drug in human body. among these systems, special attention and much research works have ...

As of today, numerous researchers have explored the issue of secure and efficient smart card based authentication scheme for these variety of application areas. This article explores the background research on the single server smart card authentication schemes as well as multi-server smart card authentication schemes and its associated research gaps. This article gives comparative analysis of ...

Background: Smart school project is a new step in information age; it can create fundamental changes in teaching-learning process as well as teacher-student tasks and roles and integration of information technology and curriculum. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate smart schools current statues in Mazandaran province based on “Smart School” Conceptual Model during the academic year 2...

Smart homes offer a potential benefit for individuals who want to lead independent lives at home and for loved ones who want to be assured of their safety. We have designed algorithms to detect anomalies and predict events based on sensor data collected in a smart environment. In this paper we explain how representing and reasoning about temporal relations improves the performance of these algo...

Purpose Parents and teachers of children with developmental challenges and special learning needs face unique socialemotional challenges in caregiving. Stress associated with their roles has been shown to impact parents’ and special educators’ health and well-being, as well as the quality of their parenting and teaching. In this paper, we report results of a pilot study conducted to investigate...

The aim of this paper is to study the real potential of using Big Data Analytics in Smart Cities. In this work, we studied cases across the globe where decision maker are using Big Data Analytics as a tool for making Smart City. The paper covers how Internet of Things, Machine to machine, Big Data and Smart Cities Linkages can help in doing predictive analytics which can be helpful to human wel...

In this paper, we introduce an inquiry dialogue approach for supporting decision making in a smart environment setting. These inquiry dialogues have as topic either agreement atoms or agreement rules, which capture services in a smart environment. These services are provided and supported by three rational agents with different roles: Environment Agent, Activity Agent and Coach Agent. These thr...

Smart Grid and Smart Metering are being rolled out all over the world. However, the media, politicians and consumers are very sceptic about the potentially involved privacy loss. In this paper, we discuss the types of data the Smart Grid utilizes and what level of access the different roles of the Smart Grid need for their legitimate business. Furthermore, we provide some scenarios for how this...