Despite the popularity of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in a wide range of applications,
security problems associated with them have not been completely resolved. Middleware is …

In this paper, we present an intelligent ubiquitous middleware which provides semantic
service discovery based on context-awareness and a variety of intelligent ubiquitous …

This book selectively builds upon and integrates the main findings of Framework
Programme 7 project PHS2020 1. It is an important contribution rooted in the context of …

Despite the popularity of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in a wide range of applications,
security problems associated with them have not been completely resolved. Middleware is …

Purpose–Context‐awareness is an essential property of any pervasive system perceiving its
environment. Such a system captures and processes context, ie the features describing the …

Ubiquitous computing is an emerging paradigm for health care environments in which
expedited decision making is of paramount importance. The information obtained from …

In recent years, ubiquitous computing applications span such areas as telemedicine,
banking, and transportation that require user privacy protection. The realization of context …

Privacy is one of the areas of security with tradeoffs in ubiquitous computing and tends to a
difficult, yet necessary, design issue in such dynamic environments. Context and social …

Abstract The Ubiquitous Computing paradigm integrates myriads of small, inexpensive,
heterogeneous networked devices, including sensors, distributed throughout the …

This article proposes a two-tiered model for decentralized reasoning in which two interacting
parties—with access to different context information—perform a cooperative strategy to infer …