Browsing by Subject "Ubiquitous computing"
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Applying utility functions to adaptation planning for home automation applications
(2009)A pervasive computing environment typically comprises multiple embedded devices that may interact together and with mobile users. These users are part of the environment, and they experience it through a variety of devices ...
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A basis for performance property prediction of ubiquitous self-adapting systems
(2007)Utility-based adaptation approaches permit to determine the "best" suited variant of an application at run-time. Utility policies are usually specified in terms of resources and QoS dimensions. Although utility policies ...
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A comprehensive context modeling framework for pervasive computing systems
(2008)Context management in pervasive computing environments must reflect the specific characteristics of these environments, e.g. distribution, mobility, resource-constrained devices, or heterogeneity of context sources. Although ...
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DBGlobe: A service-oriented P2P system for global computing
(2003)The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a super-database. Our goal is to develop a data management system ...
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A development framework and methodology for self-adapting applications in ubiquitous computing environments
(2012)Today software is the main enabler of many of the appliances and devices omnipresent in our daily life and important for our well being and work satisfaction. It is expected that the software works as intended, and that ...
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Editorial message: Special track on ubiquitous computing
(2004)Ubiquitous computing places humans in the center of environments saturated with computing and wireless communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so that technology recedes in the background of everyday ...
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Editorial message: Special track on ubiquitous computing
(2005)Ubiquitous computing places humans in the center of environments saturated with computing and wireless communications capabilities, yet gracefully integrated, so that technology recedes in the background of everyday ...
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A framework for dynamic validation of context-aware applications
(2012)The development of context-aware applications is a complex process that involves the tasks of analysis, design, validation and implementation. This process is typically performed using context modelling approaches that ...
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A hybrid peer-to-peer solution for context distribution in mobile and ubiquitous environments
(2009)With the proliferation of mobile devices such as PDAs and smart-phones, users get accustomed to using them in their daily life. This raises the expectations for user-customized and environment-aware services. However, ...
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The impact of remote sensing on the everyday lives of mobile users in urban areas
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014)Increasing urbanism creates serious ambient problems that downgrade the quality of life of citizens. Environmental awareness may help people to take more informed decisions in their everyday lives, ensuring their health ...
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Middleware-based development of context-aware applications with reusable components
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Θετικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Επιστημών / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, 2009-12)Λόγω της μεγάλης διάδοσης του κινητού και διάχυτου υπολογισμού, υπάρχει αυξανόμενη ανάγκη για εφαρμογές που να είναι ευαίσθητες και να προσαρμόζονται στο περιβάλλον. Τέτοιες εφαρμογές ωφελούν τους χρήστες με το να ρυθμίζουν ...
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Mobile commerce: Vision and challenges (location and its management)
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2002)Mobile computing is distributed computing that involves elements whose location changes in the course of computation. Elements may be software components such as mobile agents or moving objects-data or hardware such as ...
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Mobile computing with MPEG-21
(2005)In the field of multimedia content provision, many researchers investigate numerous techniques for adapting the content based on device, network, environment and user characteristics. In this paper, we present an MPEG-21 ...
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Optimizing the utility function-based self-adaptive behavior of context-aware systems using user feedback
(2008)The vision of ubiquitous computing is about numerous devices embedded in our every-day environment, designed to serve humans in a non-obtrusive manner while minimizing the required user attention. These devices are expected ...
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A peer-to-peer based infrastructure for context distribution in mobile and ubiquitous environments
(2007)The increasing proliferation of mobile devices has raised the expectations for user-customized and environment-aware services. However, mobile context-aware systems inherently feature characteristics of distribution and ...
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A pluggable and reconfigurable architecture for a context-aware enabling middleware system
(2008)Context awareness is a core feature of modern mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. Although it has not reached its full potential yet, one can already observe significant activity in the area of software engineering ...
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Qualifying explore and exploit for efficient data dissemination in emergency adhoc networks
(IEEE Computer Society, 2014)The literature of wireless adhoc networks includes a plethora of alternative dissemination strategies that aim for efficient delivery of data traffic from source to destination. Hence, the majority of these strategies ...
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RAN selection for converged networks supporting IMS signalling and MBMS service
(2007)Future Communication Networks are envisioned to be based upon a common, flexible and scalable convergence platform, where different access networks, different terminals and different services can coexist. The new user ...
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The Smart Home meets the Web of Things
(2011)In recent years, the merging of computing with physical things, enabled the transformation of everyday objects into information appliances. We propose to reuse the central principles of the modern Web architecture to fully ...
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Social networking of the smart home
(2010)Social networking on the Web has become an integral part of our lives. Merging of computing with physical things enabled the conversion of everyday objects into information appliances. This merging allows Smart Homes to ...