Nowadays, numerous journals and conferences have published articles related to context-
aware systems, indicating many researchers' interest. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to …

The capacity to gather and timely deliver to the service level any relevant information that
can characterize the service-provisioning environment, such as computing …

This paper analyzed the adoption of using mobile learning (m-learning) in higher education.
Mobile Learning as a model of e-learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills and …

Pervasive and mobile computing call for suitable middleware and programming models to
support the activities of complex software systems in dynamic network environments. In this …

Abstract Service-oriented computing is now acknowledged as a central paradigm for Internet
computing, supported by tremendous research and technology development over the last 10 …

Currently, there is no standard instrument for measuring user adoption of mobile services.
Based on the mobile service acceptance model, this paper reports on the development of a …

Along with the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTSs),
an astonishing number of mobile commerce applications have become available. Hence …

In the scope of ubiquitous computing, one of the key issues is the awareness of context,
which includes diverse aspects of the user's situation including his activities, physical …

The recent increase in the ubiquity and connectivity of computing devices allows forming
large-scale distributed systems that respond to and influence activities in their environment …

The advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm has brought opportunities to solve many
real-world problems. Energy management, for example, has attracted huge interest from …