: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
Context information is used by pervasive networking and context-aware programs to adapt intelligently to different environments and user tasks. As the context information is poten...
—Countless challenges to preserving a user’s location privacy exist and have become more important than ever before with the proliferation of handheld devices and the pervasive...
The design of interactive software that populates an ambient space is a complex and ad-hoc process with traditional software development approaches. In an ambient space, important ...
Privacy is an enormous problem in online social networking sites. While sites such as Facebook allow users fine-grained control over who can see their profiles, it is difficult ...