Acquiring local context information and sharing it among co-located devices is critical for
emerging pervasive computing applications. The devices belonging to a group of co-located …

Herd literature suggests that people tend to discount their own beliefs and imitate others
when making adoption decisions. However different people based on their characteristics …

Today's ubiquitous wireless networks enable easy access to information on the web.
However, when applications need access to highly transient and hyper-localized …

Supporting atomic blocks (eg, Transactional Memory (TM)) can have far-reaching effects on
language design and implementation. While much is known about the language-level …

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects smart objects so they can share information in a
network to provide context-sensitive services. The amount of shared information will …

This dissertation introduces new perspectives on the sharing context (situational
information) among Internet of Things (IoT) devices having different processing power …

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) aims to extend the edge of cloud computing networks in
remote servers. MEC promises advantages such as fast response time and balancing …

Sensing applications often require participants to share context information about the
physical social, or network environment in which they operate. Building shared views of …