Internet of Things is a paradigm that defines networking of various kinds of devices that are
typically constrained, eg, by limited amount of memory. Lightweight Machine to Machine …

MOPED (MObile grouPEd Device) is a network model that treats a user's set of personal
devices as a single, virtual device. The nodes of the MOPED dynamically aggregate …

Applications such as fleet management and logistics, emergency response, public security
and surveillance or mobile workforce management use geo-positioning and mobile …

Pervasive social applications are applications that enable end users to interact and share
information on the move. In these applications, the concept of a user group plays a central …

Recent research in pervasive computing has shown that context-awareness and dynamic
adaptation are fundamental requirements of mobile distributed applications. However, most …

We present active surroundings, a group-aware middleware infrastructure for embedded
application systems where entities (devices or services) actively respond to user actions and …

Group communication system (GCS) is a useful mechanism for constructing reliable, fault-
tolerant distributed application. When GCS is extended in mobile environment, the …

As the Internet of Things continues to grow rapidly in the coming years, the number of
devices with limited resources will continue to grow as well. These so-called constrained …

The rapid increase in the number and variety of consumer-level electronic devices without
the corresponding development of device management technology has lead to a …

The emergence of new lightweight Web technologies and the development of mobile
devices leads to a situation, where the users can consume the same Web services …