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Ambient Intelligence: A New Computing Paradigm and a Vision of a Next Wave in ICT

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The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence

Part of the book series: Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence ((ATLANTISAPI,volume 9))

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The aim of this chapter is to give insights into the origin and context of the AmI vision; to shed light on the customary assumptions behind the dominant vision of AmI, underlying many of its envisioned scenarios, and provide an account on its current status; to outline and describe a generic typology for AmI; to provide an overview on technological factors behind AmI and the many, diverse research topics and areas associated with AmI; to introduce and describe human-directed sciences as well as artificial intelligence and their relationships and contributions to AmI; and to discuss key paradigmatic, non-paradigmatic, pre-paradigmatic, and post-paradigmatic dimensions of AmI. Moreover, this chapter intends to provide essential underpinning conceptual tools for exploring the subject of AmI further in the remaining chapters.

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Bibri, S.E. (2015). Ambient Intelligence: A New Computing Paradigm and a Vision of a Next Wave in ICT. In: The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence. Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, vol 9. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-130-7_2

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