This paper presents a propose for support learning in a pervasive computing environment. It is composed of educational service agents (ESA) and a pervasive personal pedagogical agent (P3A). ESA will support educational applications using the pervasive environment ISAM. Agents will be accessed through P3A, which shall always be with the learner (the agent moves to devices that the learner is usi...

This paper explores service composition in pervasive environments with a focus on dynamic service selection. Service orientation offers the dynamism and loose coupling needed in pervasive applications. However, contextaware service composition is still a great challenge in pervasive computing. Service selection has to deal with dynamic contextual information to enable context-aware behaviors to...

Technology is increasingly enabling us to instrument our physical environment with complex sensors and actuators, creating a connected world that generates huge volumes of complex data. In this article we describe a number of opportunities and challenges that this new data-rich world brings to pervasive computing and highlight the emergence of a new field of pervasive data science.

The openness and dynamics of the pervasive computing environment call for dynamic integration of autonomous, heterogeneous networked components. This position paper outlines an approach towards ad hoc interoperability in pervasive environments. 1 Pervasive Environments and Promising Paradigms The paradigm of pervasive computing [1] has opened new perspectives to the enactment of human activitie...

Pervasive computing, with its focus on users and their tasks rather than on computing devices and technology, provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. But, while hardware and networking infrastructure to realize this vision are becoming a reality, precious few applications run in this infrastructure. We believe that this lack of applications stems largely from the fact that it...

The range of pervasive computing technology available for use in healthcare continues to evolve, allowing for an increasing variety of wireless sensors, devices, and actuators to be cost effectively deployed in smart, context-aware environments. One area that is of compelling interest for the application of this technology is independent living of the elderly. An independent living environment ...

Million of wireless device users are ever on the move, becoming more dependent on their PDAs, smart phones, and other handheld devices. With the advancement of pervasive computing, new and unique capabilities are available to aid mobile societies. The wireless nature of these devices has fostered a new era of mobility. Thousands of pervasive devices are able to arbitrarily join and leave a netw...

Advances in smart devices, mobile wireless communications, sensor networks, pervasive computing, machine learning, middleware and agent technologies, and human computer interfaces have made the dream of smart pervasive environments a reality. According to Cook and Das (Cook & Das, 2004), a “smart environment” is one that is able to autonomously acquire and apply knowledge about its users (or in...