The ongoing technological development in the fields of sensors, actuators as well as embedded systems leads to more and more complex and larger building automation systems. These systems allow ever-better observations of activities in buildings with a rapid growing number of possible applications. This work investigates how statistical methods can be applied to (future) building automation systems to recognize erroneous behavior and to extract semantic and context information from sensor data. A hierarchical model structure based on hidden Markov models is proposed to establish a framework...

This book presents the state-of-the-art in biomimetics, integrating a variety of application fields including biophysics, surface sciences, medicine and architecture. Covers materials and structures in nanotechnology and biomaterials research, and much more.

This book presents an outline of current activities in the field of biomimetics and integrates a variety of applications comprising biophysics, surface sciences, architecture and medicine.