A simple model of mashup technology for combining services and connected devices is now
becoming popular. This model is frequently referred to as task automation based on Event …

The evolution of the Internet of Things leads to new opportunities for the contemporary
notion of smart offices, where employees can benefit from automation to maximize their …

In this paper, we present an implemented system for supporting group interaction in mobile
distributed computing environments. First, an introduction to context computing and a …

Context-aware applications can sense and explore the users' context in order to provide
proper and useful services to these users. These applications can react intelligently upon …

Smart space and smart appliances, ie wirelessly ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous
special purpose computing devices, providing largely invisible support and contextaware …

One important functionality provided by a context-aware infrastructure is to derive high-level
contexts on behalf of context-aware applications. High-level contexts are summary …

Pervasive Computing has developed a vision where the “computer” is no longer associated
with the concept of a single device or a network of devices, but rather the entirety of situative …

A new system named Home-Explorer that searches and finds physical artifacts in a smart
indoor environment is proposed. The view on which it is based is artifact-centered and uses …

Computer science and engineering nowadays appears to be challenged (and driven) by
technological progress and quantitative growth. Among the technological progress …

With more and more everyday artifacts being equipped with networked embedded systems
technology, their spatial situation or context–such as where they are located or whether two …