Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
Several researchers have pointed out and begun to demonstrate that it is now possible to digitize an entire lifetime of experiences into a pocket-sized storage device, and thus to...
Compared to all emerging issues, privacy is probably the most prominent concern when it comes to judging the effects of a wide spread deployment of ubiquitous computing. On one ha...
Abstract. Runtime detection of contextual properties is one of the primary approaches to enabling context-awareness. Existing property detection schemes implicitly assume that cont...
A user stores his personal files in a cloud, and retrieves them wherever and whenever he wants. For the sake of protecting the user data privacy and the user queries privacy, a use...