Pervasive systems are becoming increasingly popular, with the appearance and penetration of mobile devices such as smart phones. Proactive service is one of the most important fields of research in pervasive computing. We propose a method for an effective proactive service in pervasive computing environment. Most of previous researches do not consider characteristics of both social network and ...

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...

A key goal of computing is to enhance communication. Pervasive computing takes this a step further and strives to make communication less intrusive and more useful. This project investigates the network components required for a pervasive collaborative environment. We include user-to-user communication and an interface to interact with the surrounding (pervasive) environment. Instead of buildin...

This paper explores proactive and pervasive computing, and looks at the challenges faced by middleware for pervasive computing. Pervasive or ubiquitous computing is a vast area of research that has implications for networking, applications, development environments, user interfaces, remote sensing, and even the form of what we today know as a computer. It seeks to connect computers to one anoth...

The increase in the use of mobile & embedded devices, coupled with ad-hoc, short range wireless networking is enabling pervasive computing. This pervasive computing environment and the wired Grid infrastructure can be combined to make the Computation and Information Grid truly pervasive. This paper identifies some of the interesting research issues and challenges in creating such a pervasive Gr...

This chapter will survey pervasive computing with a look at how its constraint for transparency affects issues of resource management and security. The goal of pervasive computing is to render computing transparent, such that computing resources are ubiquitously offered to the user and services are proactively performed for a user without his or her intervention. The task of integrating computi...

Pervasive Computing refers to a seamless and invisible computing environment which provides dynamic, proactive and context-aware services to the user by acquiring context knowledge from the environment and composing available services. In this paper, we demonstrate how heterogeneous Web services can be made interoperable and used to support Pervasive Computing. We present an architecture how a ...