PAVAL: A location-aware virtual personal assistant for retrieving geolocated points of interest and location-based services

SIP-based Location Aware Services

In this paper, we investigate the prospects of using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in context—aware services. We focus on the location-based paradigm in which the users' location is the contextual parameter used for service adaptation and delivery. We present the general steps required to achieve this and elaborate on an architecture that uses a SIP-enabled Value Added Service Provider as t...

Location-based services, conspicuous mobility, and the location-aware future

The production and consumption of geographic information is becoming a more mobile practice, with more corporate actors challenging the traditional stronghold of Esriand government-based geospatial developments. What can be considered a geographic information system has expanded to include web-based technologies like Google Earth/Maps, as well as more recent developments of Microsoft’s Bing Map...

Location-aware Telecommunication Services

Charged Location Aware Services

Location aware services have been envisioned as the killer application for the wireless Internet. But they did not gain sufficient attention. We are convinced that one of the major pitfalls is that there is up to now no way to charge for this kind of services. In this paper we present an architecture which provides the basic mechanisms needed to realize charged location based services. The thre...

Bootstrapping Location-aware Personal Computing

OF THE DISSERTATION Bootstrapping Location-aware Personal Computing by Nishkam Ravi Dissertation Director: Liviu Iftode Pervasive computing is centered around the idea of provisioning computing services to the user anywhere anytime. If realized, pervasive computing can have a significant impact on our daily lives, ranging from the the way we dress to the way we work and travel. Two key hurdles ...