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 ...

In today‟s era of the ubiquitous computing, the Internet has become the main mode of data communication. Most of the devices used in wireless/mobile environments, that form wireless networks, ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks etc., have low computational power, memory and limited battery power. In such a Pervasive Computing environment, providing security to data becomes a complex ta...

Here we present the SimCon tool to enable evaluators of pervasive applications to rapidly place and configure context sources within a Virtual Reality Environment to conduct repeatable evaluations early in the development life cycle. Index Terms ± Pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, user-centred design and evaluation, 3D virtual environment.

Various forms of pervasive computing environments are being deployed in an increasing number of areas including healthcare, home automation, and military. This evolution makes the development of pervasive computing applications challenging because it requires to manage a range of heterogeneous entities with a wide variety of functionalities. This paper presents Pantagruel, an approach to integr...

Pervasive computing is an emerging technology that brings new dimensions to distributed computing; it uses a wide variety of smart, ubiquitous devices throughout an individual’s working and living environment. Mobile agents are software entities that can migrate between servers or mobile agent environments of the network accomplishing various tasks on the behalf of their owners. The objective o...

Traditional software architecture models, such as: Object-oriented, Service-oriented, Agent-oriented, have been confronting the challenges in more and more complex distributed computing situations, e.g. pervasive computing, Internet of things, smart-city, etc. Organization-oriented architecture model is proposed to attempt to improve the abstraction and design capability of software architectur...

Pervasive computing aims to build an aggregated environment around a user by knitting diverse computing and communicating devices and software services into a single homogeneous unit. Our work is to develop a Pervasive computing framework which harnesses the power of Semantic Web and Web Services, facilitating the development of effective and intelligent Pervasive environments. This paper prese...

Pervasive (or Ubiquitous) Computing aims to seamlessly integrate computing and communication with our environment so as to make our day-today activities the central focus rather than the computing or communication devices per se. Mark Weiser in his 1991 visionary paper " The Computer for 21st Century " laid the foundations of this field. Last decade has seen a steady increase in the momentum fo...

As portable devices have become a part of our everyday life, more people are unknowingly participating in a pervasive computing environment. People might engage in many computational devices simultaneously without even the awareness of their existence. The idea of pervasive computing is that almost every device we see today will be capable of communication and function in collaboration with one...

Ontologies are entering widespread use in many areas such as knowledge and content management, electronic commerce and the Semantic Web. In this paper we show how the use of ontologies has helped us overcome some important problems in the development of pervasive computing environments. We have integrated ontologies and Semantic Web technology into our Pervasive Computing infrastructure. Our in...