Mobile devices such as PDAs, smartphones and tablet computers are becoming
increasingly popular, setting out opportunities for new ways of communicating and …

Worldwide buildings are responsible for about 40% of the overall consumption and
contribute to an average of 30% percent of the global carbon emissions. Nevertheless, most …

Context awareness is an essential feature of pervasive applications and runtime detection of
context changes is necessary for enabling context awareness. Context aware applications …

Personalization, aiming at supporting users individually, according to their individual needs
and prerequisites, has been discussed in a number of domains including learning, search …

In ubiquitous computing environments, applications must be able to respond to dynamic
context changes in order to provide suitable services to users. A promising solution consists …

Ubiquitous computing environments provide a wide range of new challenges and
possibilities in Distributed Systems. Among these, collaborative activities involving several …

In this paper, we propose a novel analysis approach, called ANALOG, for the design and the
development of context-aware applications able to detect context change and to predict …

Context This work is part of context aware applications design and development, and smart
environments in which context changes frequently. Objective The objective of the work is to …

To reduce Web access latencies, we propose a new paradigm for caching at the reference
point of a document. If a document X is referred to from a document Y, information is cached …

The current trend in Ubiquitous Computing is to develop smaller, smarter and adaptive
devices that are continuously connected to the Internet through wireless technologies. This …