The Birmingham University Field Archaeology Forum Novum Field Trial. (above Dr Vince Gafney of The Birmingham University Field Archaeology Unit (BUFAU) And right archaeologists and cameras our team members taking pictures of the wearable (and taking pictures of having their picture taken!) Current and future work:-. Image annotation and context awareness functions are the focus for the next pro...

Adaptation in context-aware ubiquitous environments and adaptive systems is becoming more and more complex. Adaptations need to take into account information from a plethora of heterogeneous sensors, while the adaptation decisions often imply personalised aspects and individual preferences, which are likely to change over time. We present a novel concept for lifelong learning from sensor data s...

A lot of work has been done up to now in the so called context-aware research field on the one hand and on the ontology research field on the other. Research has been conducted both considering context-awareness and ontology as clearly distinct research disciplines and also utilizing ontologies as a tool for context management. However, context-based applications have only been possible at a la...

The growing complexity of distributed systems demands for new ways of control. Future systems should be able to adapt dynamically to the current conditions of their environment. They should be characterised by so-called self-x properties like self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimising, selfprotecting, and context-aware. For the incorporation of such features typically monitoring components...

In this paper, we claim that there are complementary features which can bring different paradigms in the DM and PL domains to a fruitful cooperation in building Adaptive Systems. The data tailoring capabilities embedded in the PerLa sensor data management language have been extended, thus applying context-awareness to generic system operations; these operations, in turn, can be expressed as Lay...

Pervasive environments involve the interaction of users with the objects that surround them and also other participants. In this way, pervasive communities can lead the user to participate beyond traditional pervasive spaces, enabling the cooperation among groups taking into account not only individual interests, but also the collective and social context. In this study, the authors explore the...

Two major properties will characterize networks in the future: ‘3C everywhere’ and ‘physical interaction’. These two properties promise a computing infrastructure that seamlessly and ubiquitously aids users in accomplishing their tasks and that renders the actual computing devices and technology largely invisible. This paper begins by providing a brief overview of the emerging technologies that...

A distributed non-hierarchical metacognitive architecture is one in which all meta-level reasoning components are subject to meta-level monitoring and management by other components. Such metacognitive distribution can support the robustness of distributed IT systems in which humans and artificial agents are participants. However, robust metacognition also needs to be context-aware and use dive...

Future computing environments will free the user from the constraints of the desktop. Applications for a mobile environment should take advantage of contextual information, such as position, to offer greater services to the user. In this paper, we present the Cyberguide project, in which we are building prototypes of a mobile context-aware tour guide. Knowledge of the user’s current location, a...

1 Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea 2Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama, P.O. Box 870290, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0290, USA 3Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, No. 151 University Road, San Shia District, New Taipei City 23741, Taiwan 4 School of Engi...