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Formal modeling and analysis of human behavior can properly advance disciplines ranging from psychology to economics. The ability to perform such modeling has been limited by a lack of ecologically-valid data collected regarding human daily activity. We ...

In today's fast-paced environment, humans are faced with various problems such as information overload, stress, health and social issues. So-called anticipatory systems promise to approach these issues through personal guidance or support within a user'...

Digital personal assistants such as Apple's Siri or Google Assistant emerge and penetrate our everyday lives, acting as digital helper for searching information or executing simple tasks. However, with their primarily reactive behavior through ...

In today's fast paced environment society is confronted with information overload, stress, or health issues [7]. These are generally caused by accelerating technological evolution, increasing time pressure, or physical inactivity. So-called anticipatory ...

In today's fast paced environment, society is confronted with information overload, stress, and health issues. These are generally caused by accelerating technological evolution, increasing time pressure, and physical inactivity. So-called anticipatory ...

Assistive technologies can help cognitively impaired people in planning and memory tasks [1]. To provide efficient assistance, pervasive environments should be able to adapt assistance to the user's capacities, the activity to perform and the context. ...

To cope with the challenges existing in pervasive environments, based on the characteristics of pervasive environments, a semantic distance-based trust model is proposed in this paper. The semantic distance between entities and between trust categories ...

Personalization mechanisms often employ behavior monitoring and machine learning techniques to aid the user in the creation and management of a preference set that is used to drive the adaptation of environments and resources in line with individual ...

Pervasive applications are encountered in a number of settings, including smart houses, intelligent buildings or connected plants. Service-Oriented Computing is today the technology of choice for implementing and exposing resources in such environments. ...

This document exposes the most relevant issues regarding the development of Distributed User Interfaces (DUIs) to present the specific features that are not covered by traditional development processes. A transversal approach to tackle these new aspects ...

Thanks to pervasive environment, users can remotely have access to various resources and services within their public or private living space. Consequently, several security and privacy issues are raised especially due to the wireless access used to get ...

Collaborative learning is one of the intense topics from electronic learning (e-learning) to pervasive learning (p-learning) based on the diverse technology. This study attempts to shift the paradigm from e-learning to p-learning by combining pervasive ...

User centric personalization plays an important role for the adoption of proactive applications. However, stipulating system support to facilitate personalization features in proactive applications generically is still an open issue. In this paper we ...

The pervasive Internet and the massive deployment of sensor devices have lead to a huge heterogeneous distributed system connecting millions of data sources and customers together [Fra01]. On the one hand, mediation systems [BGL⁺99, DNJT05] using XML as ...

Our approach towards context awareness is to use sensor augmented daily life objects surrounding us for extracting context information and for providing ambient services. Some of these artefacts are static in nature and have designated location, like a ...

We present in this paper a solution to the difficult problem of authentication in pervasive environments. The distrust model developed hereafter allows a particular site to accept inbound connections from foreign unknown users, and to bound their access ...