Nowadays, numerous journals and conferences have published articles related to context-
aware systems, indicating many researchers' interest. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to …

Pervasive and mobile computing call for suitable middleware and programming models to
support the activities of complex software systems in dynamic network environments. In this …

Pervasive computing systems can be modelled effectively as populations of interacting
autonomous components. The key challenge to realizing such models is in getting …

Personal context is the most significant information for providing contextualized mobile
recommendation services at a certain time and place. However, it is very difficult for service …

In open heterogeneous context-aware pervasive computing systems, suitable context
models and reasoning approaches are necessary to enable collaboration and distributed …

Predicting the behavior of complex decentralized pervasive computing systems before their
deployment in a dynamic environment, as well as being able to influence and control their …

Spatial abstractions promise to be basic necessary ingredients for a novel “spatial
computing” approach to distributed systems development and management, suitable to …

Stigmergic coordination has received a growing attention in the past few years. In fact, by
decoupling interacting agents via the mediation of an active environment, stigmergy …

Modern technologies enable users accessing services using multiple channels. In the
service design phase, this poses additional requirements for high software adaptivity along …

This research volume is a continuation of our previous volume entitled “Advanced
Techniques in Web Intelligence-1”, published in 2010. The main aim was to update on the …