Aging population ratios are rising significantly. Health monitoring systems (HMS) in smart
environments have evolved rapidly to become a viable alternative to traditional healthcare …

Context aware applications, which can adapt their behaviors to changing environments, are
attracting more and more attention. To simplify the complexity of developing applications …

Due to its advantages, Alipay has become one of the largest third-party payment platforms in
China. However, Alipay is also confronted with dual challenges from inherent technology to …

The adoption of Precision Farming (PF) practices involving ubiquitous computing
advancements and conceptual innovations of “smart” agricultural production toward …

Abstract Rich Mobile Applications (RMAs) comprise a budding research area receiving
increasingly abundant attention from the academic and industrial communities. RMAs are …

Context-aware computing enriches the capabilities of intelligent devices complemented with
smart applications and helps establish smart ecosystems in fields such as Ambient …

A wide range of localization techniques has been proposed recently that leverage
smartphone sensors. Context awareness serves as the backbone of these localization …

Technological advances such as miniaturization of sensors, mobile devices and increased
computational capabilities have given way to Context Aware Applications (ACC), which …

The current generation of connected devices and the Internet of Things augment people's
capabilities through ambient intelligence. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) support systems …

This paper proposes security measures for a defined uniform and transparent internet of
things middleware, named UIoT. The proposed architecture is deployable and comprises …