— The emergence of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and RFID technology are starting to make the ubiquitous computing vision a reality, as they provide the means to obtain informat...
With the rapid growth of XML-document traffic on the Internet, scalable content-based dissemination of XML documents to a large, dynamic group of consumers has become an important...
Expert systems are originally designed to generate feasible alternatives in automated manner. The users expect the systems to contribute to make decisions proactively and intellig...
Abstract—The adaptive ubiquitous services, which dynamically adapt behaviors to requirements and contexts, are one of the major challenges in the ubiquitous computing. To facilit...
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...