Software agents are one of the building blocks of ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. Adaptation to changes in the execution context is necessary in order to provide cont...
In conventional security systems, protected resources such as documents, hardware devices and software applications follow an On/Off access policy. On, allows to grant access and ...
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) systems are emerging as one of the most pervasive computing technologies in history due to their low cost and their broad applicability. Altho...
Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Melanie R. Rieback, Andrew ...
Automatically determining the situation of an ad-hoc group of people and devices within a smart environment is a significant challenge in pervasive computing systems. Current appro...
—Interoperability remains a challenging and growing problem within distributed systems. A range of heterogeneous network and middleware protocols which cannot interact with one a...