2019 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence

Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Workshop on Edge Machine Learning for Smart IoT Environments (09:30 - 11:45, Room: Aula Magna, session chair: Paolo Di Lorenzo)

• "An Animal Welfare Platform for Extensive Livestock Production Systems", Vasileios Doulgerakis, Christos Giannousis, Dimitrios Kalyvas, Michalis Feidakis, Charalampos Patrikakis, Enkeleda Bocaj, George P. Laliotis, Iosif Bizelis
• "Performance of Raspberry Pi microclusters for Edge Machine Learning in Tourism", Andreas Komninos, Ioulia Simou, Nikolaos Gkorgkolis, John Garofalakis
• "Sparks-Edge: Analytics for Intelligent City Water Metering", Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Christos Tselios, Nikolaos Tsironis
• "Exploiting Edge Computing for Adaptive Data Update in Internet of Things Networks", Andrea Petroni, Andrea Lacava, Pierluigi Locatelli, Gianluigi Nero, Marcello Pediconi, Francesca Cuomo

Workshop on Ambient Intelligence in the Blockchain Era (11:45 - 13:00, Room: Aula Magna, session chair: Andrea Vitaletti)

• "From App to DApp", Andrea Vitaletti (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza")

Abstract: Most of the current ambient intelligence applications are based on cloud services. Data collected in the ambient are delivered to a trusted centralized cloud server that distills an actionable intelligence from them. Recent technologies, such as DApp, blockchain and IPFS just to mention few, allow us to design a new class of decentralized services in a trustless environment. This talk will briefly introduce such technologies.

• "Relationship between Database and Blockchain: a use case for Authenticated Data Structure representation using DB-Trees", Diego Pennino (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)

Abstract: "In this talk we propose a general architecture to adopt database with a blockchain. In our approach we can provide integrity proof associated with the results of the queries perform on the database. We also describe a new data structure to represent an Authenticated Data Structure in a database efficiently."

• “IOTA Distributed Ledger”, Stefano Della Valle (Things Labs)

Abstract: "IOTA is a transactional settlement and data transfer layer for the Internet of Things. It's based on a unique distributed ledger, the Tangle, which introduces a new way of reaching consensus in a decentralized peer-to-peer system. In this talk, we will introduce Qubic the protocol that specifies IOTA's solution for oracle machines, smart contracts, outsourced computations, and more."

• "Blockchain-based approach for shared policies management", Albenzio Cirillo (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)

Abstract: "5G is the enabler of massive M2M communication, that is managed through IoT Platforms. The increasing number of IoT devices and the amount of data collected contribute to improve efficiency in resource management and optimization. Nowadays, however, IoT also applies to monitor resources that are shared among competitors and that should be used according common policies. How the information retrieved by IoT Platforms can be shared in order to guarantee the application of such policies? Blockchain could be a trustworthy solution, that could be integrated in the M2M Architecture."

Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for promoting Sustainable Behaviors (14:30 - 17:00, Room: Aula Magna, session chair: Sten Hanke, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis)

• "The Case for Open Datasets from IoT-connected School Buildings", Georgios Mylonas, Dimitrios Amaxilatis
• "Multiple knowledge categorising behavioural states and communication attempts in people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities", Matej Cigale, Mitja Luštrek
• "Exploring different combinations of data and methods for urban land use analysis: a survey", Renato Andrade, Ana Alves, Carlos Bento
• "A Machine Learning Approach to Monitor Air Quality from Traffic and Weather data", Claudio Rossi, Alessandro Farasin, Giacomo Falcone, Carlotta Castelluccio
• "Evaluating a design-based learning approach using IoT technologies for STEM education", Irene Mavrommati, Chrysanthi Tziortzioti, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis
• "Evaluating Methods for Emotion Recognition based on Facial and Vocal Features", Matthias Ley, Maria Egger, Sten Hanke
• "The NOAH project: Internet of Things supporting seniors' independent living", Adrian Alexandru Moșoi, Sorin Moraru, Delia Ungureanu, Liviu Pernu, Florin Sandu, Dominic Kristaly, Leen Broeckx, Marc Mertens, Glen Debard, Alessandro Riccomini, Lorenzo Lasagna, Alwin Guenzberg, Vlad Petre, Sten Hanke, Niccolo' Mora, Federico Cocconcelli, Guido Matrella, Paolo Ciampolini

Tutorial on Embedded Artificial Intelligence (10:30 - 17:00, Room: A2)

• Presenters: Danilo Pau, Davide Denaro (System Research and Applications, STMicroelectronics, Agrate Brianza, Italy)
• Participants are kindly requested to make sure that the complete tool chain that will be used during the tutorial is properly installed on their laptop.
• Participants can use the shared folder on Google Drive to exchange information: http://bit.do/fg3Qh
• AI at the edge, overview, theory with Q&A (10:30 - 12:00)
• Practical session #1: examples STM32F401 microcontroller nucleo boards and your laptop (12:00 - 13:00)
• Practical session #2: examples STM32L4 microcontroller nucleo boards and your laptop. (14:30 - 16:00)
• Practical session #3: For those with a pre-trained feed forward neural network to work with STM32 (16:00 - 17:00)

During the last session, participants are encouraged to bring their pre-trained feed forward neural network targeting STM32 resources in Keras or Caffe as a challenge to get it mapped and running. Check this page for more information on the technical details of the STM toolchain.

Lunch Break (13:00 - 14:30)

Welcome Reception (18:00 - 19:00)

Friday, 15 November 2019

Invited Talk 3 (09:00 - 10:00, session chair: Ioannis Chatzigiannakis)

• John Pagonis: "Evidence based UX: A case study of using UX research to allocate funds for a product backlog in the smart mobility"

Session 6: Contributed Talks (10:15 - 11:30, session chair: Ioannis Chatzigiannakis)

• "Development of an Acoustically Adaptive Modular System for Near Real-Time Clarity-Enhancement", Alexander Liu Cheng, Patricio Cruz, Nestor Llorca Vega and Andrés Mena
• "Power efficient clock synchronization in Bluetooth-based mesh networks", Dmytro Makara, Vladyslav Tsybul'Nyk and Taras Kurnyts'Kyi
• "Characterization of Individual Mobility for Non-Routine Scenarios from Crowd Sensing and Clustered Data", Inês Cunha, João Simões, Ana Alves, Anabela Ribeiro and Rui Gomes
• "Towards Habit Recognition in Smart Homes for People with Dementia", Gibson Chimamiwa, Marjan Alirezaie, Hadi Banaee, Uwe Köckemann and Amy Loutfi (Short Talk)

Session 7: Poster Talks (11:45 - 12:00, session chair: Boris De Ruyter)

• "Automatizing the measurement of Quality of Life in senior citizens with early-stage dementia using smart technology", Timothy van Exel, Babita de Boer, Hani Alers
• "An overview of different data types and methods for urban land use analysis", Renato Andrade, Ana Alves, Carlos Bento
• "Flue smokes monitoring system: how a LoRa based sensors network can reduce gas accidents and improve checks on pollutions in the air", Francesco Cassini, Matteo Ginesi, Lorenzo Leschiera

Session 8: Contributed Talks (12:00 - 13:15, session chair: Francesca Cuomo)

• "Enhanced Buying Experiences in Smart Cities: The SMARTBUY approach", Lorena Bourg, Thomas Chatzidimitris, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Damianos Gavalas, Kalliopi Giannakopoulou, Vlasios Kasapakis, Charalampos Konstantopoulos, Damianos Kypriadis, Grammati Pantziou and Christos Zaroliagis
• "Enabling Machine Learning across Heterogeneous Sensor Networks with Graph Autoencoders", Johan Medrano and Fuchun Joseph Lin
• "Viewing Experience of Augmented Reality Objects as Ambient Media - A Comparison of Multimedia Devices", Ilhan Aslan, Chi Tai Dang, Björn Bittner, Michael Dietz, Michael Filipenko and Elisabeth André (Short Talk)
• "A Flexible and Scalable Architecture for Human-Robot Interaction", Diego Reforgiato, Danilo Dessi and Emanuele Concas (Short Talk)

Lunch Break (13:15 - 14:15)

Keynote Talk 4 (14:15 - 15:15, session chair: Ioannis Chatzigiannakis)

• Alex Gluhak: "SynchroniCity: Moving the market beyond Smart City Islands"

Session 9: Contributed Talks (15:30 - 17:00, session chair: Boris De Ruyter)

• "CircuitsMaster: An online End-User Development environment for IoT electronics", Ward Seetsen, Irene Mavrommati and Vassilis-Javed Khan
• "Adaptive Service Selection for enabling the Mobility of Autonomous Vehicles", Elif Eryilmaz, Manzoor Ahmed Khan, Frank Trollman and Sahin Albayrak
• "Enhancing an eco-driving gamification platform through wearable and vehicle sensor data integration", Christos Tselios, Stavros Nousias, Dimitris Bitzas, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Orestis Akrivopoulos, Aris Lalos, Konstantinos Moustakas and Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Short Talk)
• "Data-driven Intrusion Detection for Ambient Intelligence", Aris Anagnostopoulos, Federico Bacci, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Panos Karkazis, Luca Maiano, Paul Spirakis, Panagiotis Trakadas and Theodore Zahariadis
• "Ranking robot-assisted surgery skills using kinematic sensors", Burcin Buket Ogul, Matthias Felix Gilgien and Pinar Duygulu Sahin (Short Talk)

Presentation of Best Paper Awards & Closing Remarks (17:00 - 17:30)