Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous computing for enhanced usability adaptive technologies and applications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Stojanovic, Dragan, 1969-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Context-aware computing.; Mobile computing.; Mobile communication systems.; Context-aware adaptation; Database querying; Distributed context management; Framework for pervasive computing; Incorporating human factors; Infomobility systems; Leveraging semantic technologies; Mobile application contexts; Privacy automation; Social ambient intelligence; Semantic Web resources
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Advances in mobile computing, wireless communications, mobile positioning, and sensor technologies have given rise to a new class of context-aware mobile and ubiquitous applications. Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications provide...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Context-aware adaptation in an ecology of applications / Davy Preuveneers, Koen Victor, Yves Vanrompay, Peter Rigole, Manuele Pinheiro
• 2. Ontology based context-aware adaptation approach / Tarak Chaari, Mohamed Zouari, Frédérique Laforest
• 3. Context-aware applications for the web / Florian Daniel
• 4. Distributed context management in support of multiple remote users / I. Roussaki, M. Strimpakou, C. Pils, N. Kalatzis, N. Liampotis
• 5. An adaptable context management framework for pervasive computing / Jared Zebedee, Patrick Martin, Kirk Wilson, Wendy Powley
• 6. Context-aware database querying / Yuanping Li, Ling Feng, Lizhu Zhou
• 7. Employing context information and semantics to advance responsiveness in service composition / Carsten Jacob, Heiko Pfeffer, Stephan Steglich
• 8. A methodology for the design, development and validation of adaptive and context-aware mobile services / Heinz-Josef Eikerling, Pietro Mazzoleni
• 9. Bridging the gap between mobile application contexts and semantic web resources / Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue
• 10. Adaptive resource and service management in a mobile-enabled environment / Claudia Raibulet
• 11. Kindergarten / Nahuel Lofeudo, Andrés Fortier, Gustavo Rossi
• 12. Access control in mobile and ubiquitous environments / Laurent Gomez, Annett Laube, Alessandro Sorniotti
• 13. Privacy automation in context-aware services / Amr Eldin, Semir Daskapan, Jan van den Berg
• 14. Leveraging semantic technologies towards social ambient intelligence / Adrien Joly, Pierre Maret, Fabien Bataille
• 15. An evaluation of context-aware infomobility systems / Federica Paganelli, Dino Giuli
• 16. Incorporating human factors in the development of context-aware personalized applications / Nikos Tsianos, Panagiotis Germanakos, Zacharias Lekkas, Constantinos Mourlas.