Context-awareness is an essential component of systems developed in areas like Intelligent
Environments, Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In these …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) comes along with new challenges for experimenting,
testing, and operating decentralized socio-technical systems at large-scale. In such systems …

In recent years, technology-based health programs, including context-aware and user-
adaptive smart home ecosystems, have shown tremendous potential to limit disparities in …

Purpose The development of context-aware applications in ubiquitous environments
depends not only on the user interactions but also on several context parameters. The …

In this paper, an Ambient Intelligence (AmI) architecture for devising and implementing a
smart laboratory in a university is presented. The architecture relies on a novel meta-model …

This chapter aims to introduce the definition of context and its awareness, which are shown
through the review of existing works from the early and the current state of context-aware …

Emerging mobile applications on a growing scale adapt their functionalities and the way
these are provided, leveraging the user's contextual information, without the need of explicit …

It is now widely accepted that researchers and developers leverage the context of mobile
users to provision them with mobile services. Smartphones follow us everywhere in our …

An essential aspect of smart city applications is how to obtain context data about their users
and understand them. Several works in the last decades have presented context recognition …

The substantial growth in technology with multi-featured devices, wireless networks and
interacting computing infrastructure has increased the demand of ubiquitous services. A …