Welcome to the 5th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context. EuroSSC 2010 is a venue for high-quality papers that describe both original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in smart surroundings, context-awareness and networked embedded sensor and actuator systems. The conference brings researchers of a variety of disciplines, perspectives and geographical areas together. It aims to explore the implications of computing as it starts to surround us transparently, interwoven into the fabric of everyday life.
Our Program Committee—composed of 28 leading international researchers in the fields of context recognition and smart sensing—accepted 13 papers to be published in these proceedings.
We want to take the opportunity to express our gratitude to the diligent efforts of all members of the EuroSSC Program Committee and the team for the local arrangements.We also want to thank the over 50 (co-)authors from over 13 countries for their contributions, shaping the EuroSSC into a true international venue.
In addition to the official conference proceedings, we are pleased to also include a short report about the Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) platforms. We also want to express our thanks to the MonAMI coordinators, as without them the shared workshop would not have been possible. We found that the workshop sparked interesting discussions between the conference participants about the fascination topic of aging in a pervasive computing age.
Last but not least, we want to thank all the people who attended this year’s EuroSSC conference, as the opportunity to meet and interact with interesting people in the field makes the planning of such events a rewarding endeavor for everybody involved in the organizational aspects of it.