Context-aware information systems for mobile users have to cope with a variety of requirements in order to be able to provide an added value that goes beyond simply location-based...
Cellular telephony systems, where locations of mobile users are unknown at some times, are becoming more common. In such systems, mobile users are roaming in a zone and a user repo...
Service adaptation is fundamental to context-aware service provisioning and to the realization of the Virtual Home Environment concept, which is now an integral part of the 3G serv...
This paper discusses the functional and technological opportunities associated with mobile recommendation systems. These are systems that help a mobile user or a group of mobile u...
Hans van der Heijden, Gabriele Kotsis, Reinhard Kr...
Knowledge of the fine-grained location and orientation of devices on a surface can be used to enhance the surface-based computing tasks of mobile users in the home and workplace....
Albert Krohn, Michael Beigl, Mike Hazas, Hans-Wern...
Abstract— Privacy and security are two important but seemingly contradict objectives in pervasive computing environments (PCEs). On the one hand, service providers want to authen...
— We consider the novel problem of dynamically assigning application sessions of mobile users or user groups to service points. Such assignments must balance the tradeoff between...
Internet and multimedia services are widely-provided in All-IP based networks. There has been growing demand for mobile users to get those services. The Wireless Mesh Network (WMN...
Eric Hsiao-Kuang Wu, Wei-Li Chang, Chun-Wei Chen, ...
Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
Abstract—Dummy-based anonymization techniques for protecting location privacy of mobile users have been proposed in the literature. By generating dummies that move in humanlike t...