The rapidly emerging area of pervasive computing faces many challenging research issues
critical to application developers. Wide heterogeneity of hardware, software, and network …

Context-awareness has been recognized as an important enabler for pervasive computing.
Our aim is to provide a thorough survey of the state of the art in context representation and …

Context management in pervasive computing environments must reflect the specific
characteristics of these environments, eg distribution, mobility, resource-constrained …

Although the idea of context‐awareness was introduced almost two decades ago, few
mobile software applications are available today that can sense and adapt to their run‐time …

Application Platforms and related APIs are becoming the foundations for emerging eco-
systems of online applications/services. End-users are more and more choosing devices …

As IoT grows at a staggering pace, the need for contextual intelligence is a fundamental and
critical factor for IoT intelligence, efficiency, effectiveness, performance, and sustainability …

Although the self-adaptability of systems has been studied in a wide range of disciplines,
from biology to robotics, only recently has the software engineering community recognized …

Context awareness is a core feature of modern mobile and ubiquitous computing systems.
Although it has not reached its full potential yet, one can already observe significant activity …

Driven by the proliferation of mobile and pervasive computing, there is a growing demand
for context-aware, self-adaptive applications. Such applications benefit users by dynamically …

Context caching plays an increasingly important role in delivering near real-time responses
for context-aware distributed Internet of Things (IoT) applications, services and systems. A …