To realize context aware applications for smart home environments, it is necessary to recognize function or usage of objects as well as categories of them. On conventional researc...
A challenge for pervasive computing is the seamless integration of computer support with users’ activities in a very dynamic setting, with deep human and resource mobility. Port...
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Karin Breitman, Nicola...
Mobile environments are characterized by resource fluctuations and limitations, and variations in user preferences. Therefore mobile applications need to be adaptive to retain us...
Mourad Alia, Viktor S. Wold Eide, Nearchos Paspall...
Computers are increasingly more integrated into peoples’ daily lives. In this development, user privacy is affected by the occurrence of privacy-invasive software (PIS), sometime...
This paper presents and discusses the use of an agent-oriented context-aware platform to support communities of practice (CoPs) in the health care domain. Our work is based on a s...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Renata S. S. Gu...