High-level context awareness can be significantly improved by the recognition of real-life
situations. The theory of context spaces is a context awareness approach that uses spatial …

Performance evaluation process identifies direction for future research and development.
Tremendous efforts have been invested in the related research; however, no standard or …

Smart environments (SmE) are richly integrated with multiple heterogeneous devices; they
perform the operations in intelligent manner by considering the context and …

Pervasive computing is a paradigm that focuses on the availability of computer resources
anytime anywhere for any application and supports non-intrusive integration of computing …

In this chapter, we review our research for dependable service composition for smart cities in
both cyber and physical spaces. For the cyber space, given the active investigation on web …

Monitoring of service-based systems can be used to assist with the verification of the
behaviour of the system, and the quality and contextual information of the services …

Monitoring of service-based systems is considered an important activity to support service-
oriented computing. Monitoring can be used to verify the behavior of a service-based …

Abstract Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have significantly changed how we operate
manufacturing plants, transportation systems, facility management and monitoring systems …

The problem of microelectronic device thermal field analysis has been formalized. The
presented method of the initial and boundary problem formalization makes it possible to take …

Context awareness is one of the central features of pervasive computing systems. From
pervasive computing perspective a situation can be defined as external semantic …