IEEE Pervasive Computing
A distributed approach for assistive service provision in pervasive environment
WMASH '06 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
Application polymorphism for autonomic ubiquitous computing
Multiagent and Grid Systems
ICOST'10 Proceedings of the Aging friendly technology for health and independence, and 8th international conference on Smart homes and health telematics
A Software Self-Organizing Middleware for Smart Spaces Based on Fuzzy Logic
HPCC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Seamless semantic service provisioning mechanism for ambient assisted living
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Handling user interface plasticity in assistive environment: UbiSMART framework
ICOST'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Toward useful services for elderly and people with disabilities: smart homes and health telematics
Semantic reasoning in context-aware assistive environments to support ageing with dementia
ISWC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part II
Semantic network monitoring and control over heterogeneous network models and protocols
AMT'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Active Media Technology
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The large scale deployment of ambient assisted living systems raises challenges related to the heterogeneity of the environments in which sensors, devices and services will be deployed, as well as the diversity of patients' needs and profiles. In these environments, each patient has a specific profile that influences the choice of interaction devices and requires particular services. The selection of required context-aware services affects the decision on the set of sensors that need to be installed. Moreover, even in one specific environment, new sensors, devices and services may need to be added due to the evolution of patient's needs. Therefore, a generic framework that is able to adapt to such dynamic environments and to integrate new sensors, devices and services at runtime is required. In this paper, we present a dynamic framework for ambient assisted living able to adapt to the non-uniformity of the deployment environments. The main contribution consists of a semantically driven plug&play mechanism integrated seamlessly with the reasoning engine so that all the entities present in the environment can be plugged and integrated in the reasoning process without interrupting the framework functionality. Our solution is based on the OSGi framework with the use of the DPWS standard and the semantic web.