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

Smartphones are very effective tools for increasing the productivity of business users. With
their increasing computational power and storage capacity, smartphones allow end users to …

Building systems that acquire, process and reason with context data is a major challenge.
Model updates and modifications are required for the mobile context-aware systems …

Sensors of all kinds are being integrated with mobile and portable devices (tablets,
smartphones). This opens up the possibility of context-aware applications to effectively be …

Abstract Ubiquitous Cloud Computing has been recently proposed as a new hybrid
computing model. This paradigm has two aspects:(a) Making use of cloud services to realize …

Uncertainty handling is one of the most important aspects of modelling of context-aware
systems. It has direct impact on the adaptability, understood as an ability of the system to …

Building mobile context‐aware systems is inherently complex and non‐trivial task. It consists
of several phases starting from acquisition of context, through modeling to execution of …

A server includes a network communication device, memory hardware, and data processing
hardware. The data processing hardware receives sensor data and application data from a …

Assistive technologies have the potential to enhance the quality of life of citizens. Most
especially of interest are those cases where a person is affected by some physical or …

The increasing number of mobile devices allows users to access applications anytime and
anywhere. In such applications, location is a key information to improve the interaction …