Browsing by Subject "Context- awareness"

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      Architecture for provision of context-aware web applications based on web services 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Kateros, D. A.; Venieris, Iakovos St (2008)
      Mobile and pervasive computing is gaining significant importance in the latest years. Context-awareness constitutes an essential aspect - almost a requirement - of mobile services in these environments. In this paper, we ...
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      A comprehensive context modeling framework for pervasive computing systems 

      Reichle, R.; Wagner, M.; Khan, M. U.; Geihs, K.; Lorenzo, J.; Valla, M.; Fra, C.; Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (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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      A development framework and methodology for self-adapting applications in ubiquitous computing environments 

      Hallsteinsen, S.; Geihs, K.; Paspallis, Nearchos; Eliassen, F.; Horn, G.; Lorenzo, J.; Mamelli, Alessandro; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (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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      Enabling cross-platform mobile application development: A context-aware middleware 

      Achilleos, Achilleas P.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M. (2014)
      The emergence of mobile computing has changed the rules of web application development. Since context-awareness has become almost a necessity in mobile applications, web applications need to adapt to this new reality. A ...
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      Experiences from developing a distributed context management system for enabling adaptivity 

      Paspallis, Nearchos; Chimaris, Avraam N.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2007)
      Today, one can observe an ever increasing trend in the use of mobile systems. This change inevitably affects the software running on such devices by necessitating additional functionality such as context awareness and ...
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      Exploiting context in location-based information systems 

      Mettouris, Christos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2010)
      The area of mobile location-based information systems enumerates many systems that enable their users to digitally annotate physical locations, providing in this way information to others about these locations, communicating ...
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      A hybrid peer-to-peer solution for context distribution in mobile and ubiquitous environments 

      Hu, X.; Ding, Y.; Paspallis, Nearchos; Bratskas, Pyrros; Papadopoulos, George Angelos; Vanrompay, Y.; Pinheiro, M. K.; Berbers, Y. (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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      Integrated platform for autonomic computing 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Fytros, E.; Tsetsos, V.; Samaras, George S.; Hadjiefthymiades, S.; Piquet, D. (2009)
      IPAC (Integrated Platform for Autonomic Computing) aims at delivering a middleware and service creation environment for developing embedded, intelligent, collaborative, context-aware services in mobile nodes. IPAC relies ...
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      Supporting context-aware multiparty sessions in heterogeneous mobile networks 

      Antoniou, Josephina; Pinto, F. C.; Simoes, J.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2010)
      The article addresses context-aware, adaptive multiparty sessions in a heterogeneous system through such elements as adaptivity and context-awareness. The effective usage of context information can lead to context-aware ...
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      A survey of software adaptation in mobile and ubiquitous computing 

      Kakousis, Konstantinos; Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2010)
      Driven by the vast proliferation of mobile devices and ubiquitous computing, dynamic software adaptation is becoming one of the most common terms in Software Engineering and Computer Science in general. After the evolution ...