Intelligent Environments (IE) play an increasingly important role in many areas of our lives, including education, healthcare and the domestic environment. The term refers to physical spaces incorporating pervasive computing technology used to achieve specific goals for the user, the environment or both. This book presents the proceedings of the workshops of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE ‘13), held in Athens, Greece, in July 2013. The workshops which were presented in the context of this conference range from regular lectures to practical sessions. They provide a forum for scientists, researchers and engineers from both industry and academia to engage in discussions on newly emerging or rapidly evolving topics in the field. Topics covered in the workshops include artificial intelligence techniques for ambient intelligence; applications of affective computing in intelligent environments; smart offices and other workplaces; intelligent environment technology in education for creative learning; museums as intelligent environments; the application of intelligent environment technologies in the urban context for creating more sociable, intelligent cities and for constructing urban intelligence. IE can enrich user experience, better manage the environment’s resources, and increase user awareness of that environment. This book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the application of intelligent environments.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the National Workshop on Recent Advances in Condensed Matter and High Energy Physics-2021 (CMHEP-2021). This workshop was held in the Department of Physics, Ewing Christian College (ECC), Prayagraj, in collaboration with National Academic of Sciences (NASI), Prayagraj, India, in 2021. The book highlights recent theoretical and experimental developments in condensed matter and high energy physics which include novel phases of matter, namely crystalline and non-crystalline phases, unconventional superconducting phases, magnetic phases and Quark–Gluon plasma phases along with searches of neutrino and dark matter. This book provides a good resource for beginners as well as advanced researchers in the field of condensed matter and high energy physics.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NAAC SPONSORED NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF NAAC RAF

In the modern world where technological advancement is pulsating in a matter of days, weeks or months, the ability to collect, process and analyse information can be a determining factor of life or death, peace or war, profit or loss, etc. The evolution of technology-based information is so rapid that even a highly competent individual has to struggle through thick and thin to keep up with the current trend. What happened a few minutes ago in the Amazon rain forest of South America can be heard of by a businessman residing somewhere in Asia, or any person from elsewhere with an internet connection. What was once a big and vast world system, has now become a small globalized realm due to the accessibility of information much more effectively and accurately in a shorter span of time, without the need to travel from one place to another. Thus, the gathering of information becomes more efficient and cheaper with the development of the global network system. However, with ever-increasing human population and new and better technological innovations (much like the pollution we so generated daily in huge amount), data, especially the public data, becomes so enormous that gathering, handling, processing and analysing that data becomes a demanding task. The analogy between data and pollution is accurate and ironic at the same time. Both are mainly of anthropogenic origins, increasing in folds of many, and managing them gets out of hand. If this vast data of information can be utilised for the betterment of Planet Earth, like for peace, removal and reduction of pollutions, advancement in medicines and healthcare systems and eradication of world poverty, it would be most appreciable.