− Pervasive computing aims at developing smart environments which enable user to interact with other devices. Pervasive computing includes a middleware to support interoperability, heterogeneity and self-management among different platforms. It provides efficient communications and context awareness among devices. Middleware for pervasive computing provides much more attention to coordinate the...

Context awareness is one of the fundamental principles underpinning pervasive computing. Context prediction, a new trend in pervasive computing, is an open-ended research topic with a lot of challenges and opportunities for innovation. This work presents and analyses the development in this area and compares different context prediction techniques and approaches. Index Terms — prediction, proac...

Pervasive computing envisions an environment that seamlessly integrates digital and physical devices. Users can access digital data and applications from the environment as easily as accessing them through their computers. Since pervasive computing exists in the user's environment, the technology is sustainable if it is invisible to the user and does not intrude the user's consciousness [3]. Th...

To make pervasive computing a reality, we need better system support for building, deploying, and using pervasive applications. In this paper, we identify the unique requirements of pervasive computing environments—embracing change, encouraging ad hoc composition, and facilitating sharing. We then present a system architecture, called one.world , that addresses these requirements, and, based on...