As a socially disruptive technology, Ambient Intelligence is ultimately directed towards humans and targeted at the mundane life made of an infinite richness of circumstances that cannot fully be considered and easily be anticipated. Most books, however, focus their analysis on, or deal largely with, the advancement of the technology and its potential only. This book offers a fresh, up–to–date, and holistic approach to Ambient Intelligence. As such, it addresses the interdisciplinary and

Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in technology use and thus daily living. Yet no work has systematically explored AmI and the IoT as advances in science and technology (S&T) and sociotechnical visions in light of their nature, underpinning, and practices along wi...

The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping urban computing and intelligence, marking the next frontier of sustainable smart cities. This book explores the transformative potential of deep generative models (DGMs), hybrid architectures, and foundation models (FMs) in redefining the urban landscape. These technologies enhance environmental sustainability, climate resilience, infrastructure performance, operational efficiency, spatial organization, and livabilit...

This book takes readers on a captivating journey into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI of Things (AIoT) technologies in reshaping sustainable urban development. By combining comprehensive theoretical analyses, synthesized empirical evidence, and practical case studies, it offers pioneering interdisciplinary insights and unifying frameworks. The book highlights the synergistic integration of Urban Brain (UB), Urban Digital Twin (UDT), Smart Urban Metabolism (SU...

This pioneering book invites readers on a compelling journey into Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) and its groundbreaking convergence with AI of Things (AIoT), introducing GAIoT as a transformative frontier in urban computing and intelligence. GAIoT signals a paradigm shift towards more intelligent, self-learning, self-evolving, and context-aware systems—capable of generating adaptive, forward-looking solutions to the complex infrastructural and environmental challenges confronting...

This book explores the recent advances in the leading paradigms of urbanism, namely compact cities, eco-cities, and data–driven smart cities, and the evolving approach to their amalgamation under the umbrella term of smart sustainable cities. It addresses these advances by investigating how and to what extent the strategies of compact cities and eco-cities and their merger have been enhanced and strengthened through new planning and development practices, and are being supported and levera...

We are living at the dawn of what has been termed ‘the fourth paradigm of science,’ a scientific revolution that is marked by both the emergence of big data science and analytics, and by the increasing adoption of the underlying technologies in scientific and scholarly research practices. Everything about science development or knowledge production is fundamentally changing thanks to the ever-increasing deluge of data. This is the primary fuel of the new age, which powerful computational p...

This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed, sustainable urban development is currently at the center of debate in light of several ICT visions becoming achievable and deployable computing paradigms, and shaping the way cities will evolve...

Der beste Science-Fiction-Film aller Zeiten (The Times, IGN, Rolling Stone und viele mehr) – als intensives, ungekürztes Hörbuch. Als im Jahr 2001 auf dem Mond ein mysteriöses Alien-Artefakt entdeckt wird, steht die Menschheit vor ihrer bisher größten Herausforderung. Den Signalen des Artefakts folgend, brechen Astronauten gemeinsam mit dem Supercomputer HAL 9000 an Bord des Raumschiffs "Discovery" zu einer Reise in die Tiefen des Sonnensystems auf. Doch schon bald wankt das Vertrauen zwis...

Das erfolgreiche Streben nach Sicherheit widmet sich den Themen Eigenmotivation, psychische Verwurzelung und existenziellem Erfolg. Im Mittelpunkt des ersten Bandes über die Grundlagen bindungsenergetischer Therapie steht das Bedürfnis nach emotionaler Sicherheit und die Wiedergewinnung der eigenen Selbstsicherheit. Der erste Schritt mündet schließlich in der Darstellung der Rückkehr in die eigene Erfolgsspur, welche Selbstsicherheit, Eigenmotivation und Horizonterweiterung miteinander ver...

Eigentlich möchte Polizeiinspektor Glebski nur Urlaub machen. Wären da nicht die anderen Gäste, die im verschneiten Hotel "Zum verunglückten Bergsteiger" ihre Zimmer bezogen haben. Vom Zauberkünstler über den betrunkenen Millionär und das verrückte Physikgenie zum hochintelligenten Bernhardiner – die ersehnte Ruhe ist schwer zu finden. Schließlich ist da auch noch der Geist des verunglückten Bergsteigers selbst, der angeblich des Nachts das Hotel heimsucht. Als dann auch noch eine Lawine d...

Red Shewhart ist ein Stalker, ein Glücksritter, der illegal in die Zone eindringt – in ein Gebiet, in dem vor vielen Jahren Außerirdische gelandet sind und rätselhafte Artefakte hinterlassen haben. Die Stalker bergen diese Artefakte, um sie auf dem Schwarzmarkt zu verkaufen. Aber die Zone ist voller Gefahren und gibt ihre Geheimnisse nicht ohne Weiteres preis. Der legendäre Science Fiction Klassiker "Picknick am Wegesrand" - die Inspiration für das Tarkowski-Filmmeisterwerk Stalker und die...