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...
Information about the user's environment offers new opportunities and exposes new challenges in terms of time-aware, location-aware, device-aware and personalized application...
Thomas Hofer, Wieland Schwinger, Mario Pichler, Ge...
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...
XML is designed to facilitate data exchange between applications. However, XML and its schema languages do not express semantics but rather the document structure, such as the nes...
Abstract: Most of ambient intelligence studies have tried to employ inductive methods (e.g., data mining) to discover useful information and patterns from data streams on sensor ne...