Pervasive computing (PerC) systems are now being integrated into everyday life which is
deployed in homes, offices, hospitals, universities. The sensor data can be integrated with …

Abstract Making the Internet of Things (IoT) a reality will contribute to extend the context-
aware ability of numerous sensitive applications. We can foresee that the context of users …

Developing a stand-alone context-aware application is costly and time-consuming due to
the diversity and complexity of the requirements. Context-as-a-Service (CaaS) seeks to …

Context information is in demand more than ever with the rapid increase in the number of
context-aware Internet of Things applications developed worldwide. Research in context …

Handling context is a crucial activity in context-aware systems. In building such systems, the
creation of models helps developers to understand and reason on the context information …

In the last decade, several works proposed their own list of quality of context (QoC) criteria.
This article relates a comparative study of these successive propositions. The result is that …

Nowadays, complex systems are distributed over several levels of Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructures. They may involve very small devices …

Context-oriented systems are systems that observe and handle context information from the
environment to guide their own behavior. Engineering such systems represents a complex …

Real-time applications increasingly rely on context information to provide relevant and
dependable features. Context queries require large-scale retrieval, inferencing, aggregation …

Abstract The satisfaction of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) has a clear impact in the
success of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Systems. However, existing methods and techniques …