As we are moving towards the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of sensors deployed
around the world is growing at a rapid pace. Market research has shown a significant growth …

The capacity to gather and timely deliver to the service level any relevant information that
can characterize the service-provisioning environment, such as computing …

Context-aware systems offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for
end users by gathering context data and adapting systems behaviour accordingly …

Mobile devices show a dramatic departure from old-fashion of computing platforms as they
no more represent a static or fixed notion of context, where changes are small, absent, or …

As wireless communication advances, research on location-based services using mobile
devices has attracted interest, which provides information and services related to user's …

Proactively providing services to mobile individuals is essential for emerging ubiquitous
applications. The major challenge in providing users with proactive services lies in …

The rapid proliferation and ubiquity of mobile, smart devices in the consumer market has
forced the software engineering community to quickly adapt development approaches …

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 …

Context-aware computing enriches the capabilities of intelligent devices complemented with
smart applications and helps establish smart ecosystems in fields such as Ambient …

Context awareness is increasingly gaining applicability in interactive ubiquitous mobile
computing systems. In order to apply this concept in design of applications for dynamic …