In most operating systems, the handling of interrupts is typically performed within the
address space of the kernel. Moreover, interrupt handlers are invoked asynchronously …

As the key products of ubiquitous computing, context-aware systems have been widely used
in many fields such as digital home, smart healthcare and so on. However, in the face of the …

In the context of language and communication, context refers to the circumstances or
background information that surrounds a situation or event and helps to give it meaning …

In the last decade, several works proposed their own approaches about the context
management for the Internet of Things (IoT). An important issue in such systems is faced by …

Nowadays, it is a common ground to find an e-health environment flooded by a large
amount of data, which comes from several mobile devices/sensors, and could not represent …

A smart home is one equipped with connected Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices that can be
remotely accessed and controlled. Access to smart home devices is mostly achieved …

In the era of Web of Things and Services, Context-aware Web Services (CASs) are
emerging as an important technology for building innovative context-aware applications …

The starting point to run-time adaptation of capabilities and business services is the ability to
discover changes in the delivery context. Indicators for relevant changes can be quite …

With the rising number of Internet of Things devices and context providers, the need for
sorting and selecting them according to user requirements and to the quality of sensed …

This paper discusses knowledge representation by proposing a Quality of Context
knowledge model based on ontology. An important factor in context-aware computing is the …