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With the breakthroughs in capabilities of mobile and embedded devices which allows them to become part of our everyday lives, and the subsequent advent of fields such as Internet of Things, Smart Cities and Ambient Intelligence, the process of ...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the state of the art in the field of memory support systems. In particular, this analysis is focalized on systems supporting prospective memory, which is the form of memory that reminds an individual to perform a ...

The 4W (What-Where-When-Who)project has demonstrated that the combination of rich content delivering devices, such as smart phones, together wireless broadband networking and server side computational power can be used to seamlessly weave a mesh of ...

Context-dependent information is tightly coupling or crosscutting the core functionality of a service at the service interface level. This results in a complex design, which is difficult to implement and maintain. The crosscutting context-dependent ...

In this paper, we present the REACHeS architecture for controlling pervasive services through physical user interfaces, using a mobile terminal and icons placed in the environment. An icon advertises a service that can be started by touching the icon ...

The ubiquity of wireless ad hoc networks and the benefits of loosely coupled services have fostered a growing interest in service-oriented architectures for pervasive computing. Context-aware services and runtime adaptation are key to expedite human ...

Pervasive services have attracted numerous attentions from both industries and academia. Its very high adaptability demand makes autonomic computing (AC), and in particular, personal autonomic computing (PAC), an ideal enabling technology. Some generic ...

Pervasive services accomplish tasks that are related with common tasks in the life of the user such as paying for parking or buying a bus ticket. These services are often closely related to a specific location and to the situation of the user; and they ...

Network defence is an elusive art. The arsenal to defend our devices and networks from attack is constantly lagging behind the latest methods used by attackers to break into them. To counteract this trend, we developed a distributed approach comprised ...

Ambient and Pervasive Networks is a new networking concept that targets forthcoming dynamic communication environments; characterized by presence of a multitude of different wireless devices, radio access technologies and network operators that can form ...

Platforms that support group-awareness and group interaction enable mobile users to have a rich knowledge about the whereabouts and activities of people with whom they work or live or have a shared interest. Context-based groupawareness enables members ...

This article describes a process for identifying the most interesting business exploitation cases (BECs) for the implementation of the Daidalos Integrated Project architecture. Starting from the characterization of the telecommunication service ...

Innovative paradigms and frameworks have to be identified to enable the effective deployment and execution of pervasive computing services able to enforcing properties of self-organization and self-adaptability, self-management, and of long-lasting ...

In the vision of pervasive computing environments, these are populated by smart devices which adapt depending on the user context in order to meet the user needs and look after them. Nevertheless, current devices describe their functionalities in a very ...

Ambient systems are populated by autonomous devices interconnected to one another that supply a variety of functionality that is eventually used by the users. One of the biggest challenges in this research area is to establish automatic mechanisms to ...

The use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) with ad-hoc built-in information retrieval and auto-localization functionalities can help people navigating an environment in a more natural manner compared to traditional audio/visual pre-recorded guides. ...

Development in networking technologies is enabling services that will change our daily life and living environment. The most obvious change in our way of communicating is the increase of mobility involving not only terminals but also users and services. ...