… Computing is moving towards pervasive, ubiquitous environments in which devices, software
… An important next step for pervasive computing is the integration of intelligent agents that …

Pervasive computing environments pose unique service discovery challenges. We have
developed a taxonomy of existing protocols as a basis for analyzing their approaches and …

… such as the Internet and pervasive computing environments require because such systems
… systems but geared toward pervasive computing environments. PERVASIVE COMPUTING …

… computing environment. To make the developers’ task feasible, we introduce a system
architecture for pervasive computing, … framework for building pervasive applications. It includes a …

This paper presents a world model for location-aware and user-aware services in
ubiquitous computing environments. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on …

… An application is a means by which a user performs a task, not a piece of software that is
written to exploit a device's capabilities, and the computing environment is the user's information…

… With regard to spatial information about an artifact’s environment, challenges we observe
are the maintenance of a spatial model of the environment as well as the provision of a spatial …

… The remainder of the paper is structured as follows: We illustrate the need for a data
management infrastructure in pervasive computing environments in Section 2. We define the new …

… Ad hoc Network) and Pervasive Computing Environment interchangeably in the rest of the
paper. MANET represents the extreme of the pervasive computing spectrum. Our system is …

… We believe that this transparency is misleading in a pervasive computing environment,
because it encourages a programming style in which a failure or the unavailability of a resource …