With the advent of mobile computing and mobile services becoming more widespread and more complex, the development process of those services requires an ever more important focus o...
Abstract--Mobile devices such as smart phones are increasing permeating society. With strides in computational power, coupled with the ability to connect to other small devices, sm...
— with the ubiquity of handheld devices people can now access information and conduct online transactions virtually anywhere and anytime. In such flexible but less reliable envir...
Context-awareness has been considered as promising topic in pervasive computing area, but a review of the existing approaches shown that developing diverse application services in...
In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...