As a new revolution of the Internet, Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly gaining ground as a
new research topic in many academic and industrial disciplines, especially in healthcare …

Pervasive systems must offer an open, extensible, and evolving portfolio of services which
integrate sensor data from a diverse range of sources. The core challenge is to provide …

In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid surge in assisted living technologies due to a
rapidly aging society. The aging population, the increasing cost of formal health care, the …

Development of context-aware applications is inherently complex. These applications adapt
to changing context information: physical context, computational context, and user …

Context simplifies and enriches human-human interaction. However, enhancing human-
computer interaction through the use of context remains a difficult task. Applications in …

This document describes a new architecture that exploits Semantic Web technologies for
supporting pervasive context-aware systems. This architecture called Context Broker …

Pervasive computing is by its nature open and extensible, and must integrate the information
from a diverse range of sources. This leads to a problem of information exchange, so sub …

This work introduces an ontology for incorporating Ambient Intelligence in Smart Buildings.
The ontology extends and benefits from existing ontologies in the field, but also adds …

Context-aware computing enriches the capabilities of intelligent devices complemented with
smart applications and helps establish smart ecosystems in fields such as Ambient …

This paper presents an ontology-based framework aimed at explicit representation of
context-specific metadata derived from the actual usage of learning objects and learning …