Intelligent systems and smart homes

The special issue of Information Systems Front journal presents selected papers from the 2007 International Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Smart Homes (WISH-07) organized at Canada from August 28-September 1st, 2007. In the paper 'Service Integration with UPnP Agent for a Ubiquitous Home Environment', Wally Chen and co-researchers proposed an approach for UPnP devices connecting to outer networks via UPnP aware gateway. They also developed several service oriented applications in a smart campus based on the proposed framework. The paper 'A Novel Memory Management Scheme for Residential Gateways' by Ibrahim Kamel and Beizhong Chen presents two algorithms for service replacement and memory management in home gateways. Ichiro Satoh presents a location-aware communication approach for smart home environments that is based on a symbolic location model that represents the containment relationships between physical objects, computing devices, and places, in his paper, 'Location-aware Communications in Smart Environments'.