Abstract— The paper presents a location-aware communication approach in smart home environments. It is constructed on a symbolic location model to represent the containment relat...
In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for local communication between devices in Ubiquitous Computing environments, assuming a multitude of computerized everyday appliances comm...
Models and conceptualizations are necessary to understand and design ubiquitous systems that are context–aware not just from a technological point of view. The current technologi...
In the near future, we will see dramatic changes in computing and networking hardware. A large number of devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, even small household appliances) will become c...
A significant deterrent to the ability to connect in a spontaneous manner in cross-enterprise collaborative applications is the difficulty in users from different domains being ab...