Advanced technology enables users to amalgamate information from various sources on
their mobile devices, personalise their profile through applications and social networks, as …

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

E-services are services delivered over the Internet. Such services have different properties
and dimensions, eg targeting different sectors, being accessible through different channels …

Advances in mobile technologies have enhanced the capabilities of marketers to identify the
immediate preferences of consumers through social media. Latest generation devices are …

This book grew out of the class notes around which a course on mobile computing was
taught to the senior undergraduate and the masters' students at IIT Kanpur. These students …

Applications for ubiquitous systems have to be designed to run in contextual environments
and on a multitude of software and hardware platforms. To assure their quality in an …

Development of ubiquitous applications is inherently complex. Adaptation system is a
solution for ubiquitous computing. It enhances the efficiency of application by the adaptation …

Semantic similarity measures usage is prevalent in pervasive computing with the following
aims: 1) to compare the components of an application; 2) to recommend and rank services …

In this paper, we present a new telediagnosis environment for the detection of
cardiovascular problems. This tool, called VACODIS (VAscular COllaborative …

The notion of context has become very important in computer science, especially when
users are highly mobile. In a short period of time the environment changes; communication …