Nowadays, numerous journals and conferences have published articles related to context-
aware systems, indicating many researchers' interest. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to …

Ubiquitous computing is considered as a promising technological path of innovation.
Intensive R&D activities and political strategies are addressing the objective to foster …

Context-awareness is an essential component of systems developed in areas like Intelligent
Environments, Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In these …

Context-aware applications adapt to changing computing environments or changing user
circumstances/tasks. Context information that supports such adaptations is provided by the …

With the increasing installations of solar energy, electric vehicles, and other distributed
energy resources and the deeper developments of digitalization and standardization …

In this paper, we present a forward recovery model for programming robust context-aware
applications. The mechanisms devised as part of this model fall into two categories …

Background Service selection in pervasive computing is significant as it requires identifying
the best service provider based on users requirements. After identifying the best service …

The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is a standard method by which images may be
compressed. Initially, the image is divided into 8/spl times/8-pixel blocks, each of which is …

Advances in sensing, wireless communication, and data analytics have enabled various
monitoring systems for smart health applications. However, many challenges remain to …

The Internet of Things is growing at a dramatic rate and extending into various application
domains. We have designed, implemented, and evaluated a resilient and decentralized …