The rapidly emerging area of pervasive computing faces many challenging research issues
critical to application developers. Wide heterogeneity of hardware, software, and network …

Mobile, pervasive computing environments respond to users' requirements by providing
access to and composition of various services over networked devices. In such an …

Combining existing services to create new pervasive computing services involves special
design considerations, including context awareness, contingency management, device …

An emerging issue in urban computing environments is the seamless selection,
composition, and delivery of user-centric services that run over what is known as the Internet …

Abstract Service-oriented architectures, and notably Web Services, are becoming an
incontrovertible paradigm for the development of applications in pervasive computing …

Pervasive computing environments are populated with networked services, ie, autonomous
software entities, providing a number of functionalities. One of the most challenging …

A major challenge in pervasive computing environments is to provide users with complex,
context-sensitive applications, dynamically composed from networked services. In this …

Context-awareness can serve to make ubiquitous applications deployed for mobile devices
adaptive, personalized, and accessible in dynamically changing environments …

Among the many challenges of engineering dependable, self-managed, component-based
systems is their need to make informed decisions about adaptive reconfigurations in …

Ontology Web Language for Services (OWL-S), one of the most significant semantic Web
service ontologies proposed to date, provides a core ontological framework and guidelines …