This book covers key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptive
systems. It focuses on the results worked out within the framework of the
ATRACO (Adaptive and TRusted Ambient eCOlogies) project. The theoretical
background, the developed prototypes, and the evaluated results form a fertile
ground useful for the broad intelligent environments scientific community as
well as for industrial interest groups.

The new edition provides:









Chapter authors comment
on their work on ATRACO with final remarks as viewed in retrospective
Each chapter has been
updated with follow-up work emerging from ATRACO
An extensive introduction to
state-of-the-art statistical dialog management for intelligent
environments 
Approaches are
introduced on how Trust is reflected during the dialog with the system