As intelligent mobile devices become more popular, security threats targeting them are increasing. The resource constraints of mobile devices, such as battery life and computing power, however, make it harder to handle such threats effectively. The existing physical and behavioural biometric identification methods ‐ looked upon as good alternatives ‐ a...

Pervasive computing envisions implicit interaction between people and their intelligent environments instead of between individuals and their devices, inevitably leading to groups of individuals interacting with the same intelligent environment. These environments must be aware of user contexts and activities, as well as the contexts and activities of groups of users. Here an application for in...

Multimedia Input Analysis Whereas traditional interfaces support sequential and unambiguous input from devices such as keyboard and conventional pointing devices (e.g., mouse, trackpad), intelligent multimodal interfaces (see www.mitre.org/resources/ centers/it/maybury/tutorial.html) relax these constraints and typically incorporate a broader range of input devices (e.g., spoken language, eye a...

Future smart power grids require constant data availability for actuation of control decisions. The job of ensuring the timely arrival of data falls onto the network that connects these intelligent devices. This network needs to be fault tolerant. When nodes, devices or communication links fail along a default route of a message from A to B, the underlying hardware and software layers should en...

As smart devices proliferate in the home and become universally networked, users will experience an increase in both the number of the devices they can control and the available interaction modalities for controlling them. Researchers have explored the possibilities of speechand gesturebased interfaces in desktop scenarios, but it is also necessary to explore these technologies in the context o...

Recent advances in ubiquitous devices open an opportunity to apply new data stream mining techniques to support intelligent decision making in the next generation of ubiquitous applications. This paper motivates and describes a novel Context-aware Collaborative data stream mining system CC-Stream that allows intelligent mining and classification of time-changing data streams on-board ubiquitous...

Year after year more and more devices are entering modern households. Different types of devices with different and multiple purposes. More often these devices are not just being acquired but interconnected to produce new, small and intelligent home networks. The particular research covers particular aspects of these networks and attempts to analyze users’ requirements and expectations of such ...

In the field of embedded software development, the total involvement of application software transplanted in a variety of different platforms occupies more parts than expected in a whole project. In the face of smart devices based on different operating systems and hardware platforms, it’s of great significance to enhance the repeatability of application source code and the Crossplatform portab...

In an ideal scenario of intelligent machine tools [18] the human mechanist was almost replaced by the controller. During the last decade many efforts have been made to get closer to this ideal scenario, but the way of information processing within the CNC did not change too much. The paper summarises the requirements of an intelligent CNC evaluating the different research efforts done in this f...

Ever-increasing capabilities of modern mobile devices and their relatively low prices make them widely popular and motivate their use in many previously unexplored areas. Large numbers of mobile devices, coupled with their wireless connectivity medium and mobility make them perfect building blocks in numerous pervasive environments. In this short paper, we present an adaptive pervasive framewor...