The proliferation of urban sensing, IoT, and big data in cities provides unprecedented
opportunities for a deeper understanding of occupant behaviour and energy usage patterns …

Pervasive environments involve the interaction of users with the objects that surround them
and also other participants. In this way, pervasive communities can lead the user to …

Mobile social computing has exploded into people's lives during the past 10 years, but to
become truly pervasive it needs to be much more context-aware and personalizable. The …

Recently, social networks have become the most prevalent IT paradigm, as the vast majority
of Internet users maintain one or multiple social networking accounts. These accounts …

This paper presents Abacus, a service-oriented programming language designed for the
development of grid applications. Abacus considers that all the grid resources constitute a …

The provision of pervasive computing services is a challenging research area. This paper
elaborates on the notion of Personal Smart Spaces (PSSs) that allows the delivery of …

During the last decade, social media have enjoyed meteoric success in bringing people
together online. On the other hand, pervasive computing assists users in their everyday …

Context-awareness is one of the main aspects of pervasive computing environments.
Recently, some social networking systems have also started to exploit context information …

Proactive behaviour of pervasive computing systems cannot be realised without the
establishment of suitable and reliable user intent prediction facilities. Most of the existing …

Grand challenge computational applications have been identified in a number of scientific
and engineering disciplines, and significant attention has been placed on them in part due …