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 …

In the scope of ubiquitous computing, one of the key issues is the awareness of context,
which includes diverse aspects of the user's situation including his activities, physical …

In this chapter different factors that may influence Quality of Experience (QoE) in the context
of media consumption, networked services, and other electronic communication services …

Abstract Recommender Systems (RSs) are software tools and techniques providing
suggestions of relevant items to users. These systems have received increasing attention …

An important challenge for supporting multimedia applications in heterogeneous networks is
the heterogeneity of fixed and mobile access networks. In this work, we design a new and …

The explosive growth of Internet applications and content, during the last decade, has
revealed an increasing need for information filtering and recommendation. Most research in …

OPEN is an ontology-based programming framework for rapid prototyping, sharing, and
personalization of context-aware applications. Unlike previous systems that provide …

Contextual factors greatly influence users' musical preferences, so they are beneficial
remarkably to music recommendation and retrieval tasks. However, it still needs to be …

What constitutes relevant information to an individual may vary widely under different
contexts. However, previous work on pervasive information systems has mostly focused on …

Heterogeneity is one of the key features that characterizes the future generation of cellular
networks, 5G and beyond. However, streaming high-quality bandwidth-hungry multimedia …