Nowadays, there is a major interest in applying Web and Semantic Web techniques for the creation of pervasive computing scenarios, where devices and objects communicate using these technologies. The Web model has largely proved validity both in Internet-wide and intranet scenarios, but it is starting to be applied in personal area networks as a communication and knowledge reasoning system. In t...

Various kinds of technologies in other fields are adapted to smartphone efficiently to support convenient daily life service to smart-phone users. However, designing and developing techniques of smart-phone system become complicate for adapting new technologies with mobile communication network. Thus, we suggest a real time location-based system with augmented reality as one of a smart phone ap...

The evolution of mobile technologies, like web-enable cellphones, PDAs and wireless networks, makes it now possible to use these technologies for collaborative work through web-based groupware systems. However, due to the limitations of these technologies, some adaptation is essential in these systems. In order to adapt their behaviour to the user’s context, groupware systems must be built as c...

Meeting the climate challenge will require both mitigation and adaptation. New, improved, or adapted technologies will play an important, often central role, in both of these activities. The scale of the problem is obviously enormous; at the same time, its complexity is underlined by the wide range of technologies that will be required for mitigation and adaptation and the vast differences amon...

Technology is becoming ever more central to teaching and training. In classrooms, students use intelligent tutors and adaptive tests instead of textbooks and worksheets. In daily life, mobile devices enable blended, on-demand and ubiquitous life-long learning applications. Connected, pervasive media enables compelling transmedia learning (Raybourn, 2014) experiences. However, learning opportuni...

The last decade has seen the emergence and popularisation of middleware technologies, such as the OMG’s Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Microsoft’s Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) and Sun’s Java RMI. These technologies have profoundly changed the way distributed applications are developed. In particular, they enable the large-scale deployment of applications in dist...

humans are born with potential abilities which may emerge due to certain circumstances. in educational environments, needs, interests and capacities of individuals are wide and varied. therefore, developers and educators of training programs must provide special facilities to identify talented people in the way that justice is observed for all people. meanwhile, there is no doubt that technolog...

Survivability, the ability of a system to tolerate intentional attacks or accidental failures or errors, is becoming increasingly important with the extended use of computer systems in society. While techniques such as cryptographic methods, intrusion detection, and traditional fault tolerance are currently being used to improve the survivability of such systems, new approaches are needed to he...

The Web of Things (WoT) aims at connecting things to applications using web technologies, on top of the Internet of Things. WoT applications are distributed and gather different levels of abstraction. They must be scalable and adapt to dynamic changes in their environment. The question we explore in the scope of my PhD thesis is: how can we deal with context in WoT applications? Our objective i...