Pervasive Computing is about interconnected computing resources embedded in our daily lives and providing contextual services to users. One key element of the equation is ”the human” and more specifically his behavior that is influenced and influences the environment. This article shows a generic way, using multi-agent systems (MAS) and multi-model paradigms, to evaluate communication related t...

Many pervasive computing applications involve the recording of user interaction with physical and digital resources in the environment. Such records can be used to establish context histories that can be subsequently used for user behaviour analysis, pattern recognition, prediction, and the provision of context aware services. In this paper we use trails as the principal data processing primiti...

Pervasive computing requires a new kind of software design, in fact a new kind of co-design. Pervasive system design must incorporate the characteristics and constraints of a dynamic physical environment. The critical constraint of the physical world are defined in terms of space and time; and the complexity of the real world often requires uncertainty modeling. The pervasive computing systems ...

Pervasive computing systems are interactive systems in the large, whose behaviour must adapt to the user's changing tasks and environment using different interface modalities and devices. Since the system adapts to its changing environment, it is vital that there are close links between the structure of the environment and the corresponding structured behavioural changes. We conjecture that pre...

As mobile and embedded computing devices become more pervasive, the nature of interaction between users and computers is evolving. Computing applications need to become increasingly autonomous and invisible, by placing greater reliance on knowledge of context in which they are running and reducing interactions with users. Moreover, due to the current popular emphasis onànytime, anywhere' comput...

The ability of pervasive systems to perceive the context of the surrounding environment and act accordingly proves to be an enormously powerful tool for raising immediate users' satisfaction and helping them to increase their own awareness and act in a more informed way. Therefore, recent years marked many smart environment solutions hitting the market and applying latest pervasive computing re...

Many predict that the computing environment of the future will be characterized by the presence of numerous invisible sensors and computing elements, autonomously interacting with each other to dynamically construct and provide services to users that enter and leave the environment. The software challenges to turn such pervasive or ubiquitous computing environments into reality are enormous, to...