Pervasive computing appears like a new computing era based on networks of objects and devices evolving in a real world, radically different from distributed computing, based on networks of computers and data storages. Contrary to most context-aware approaches, we work on the assumption that pervasive software must be able to deal with a dynamic software environment before processing contextual ...

The promise of pervasive computing systems, which flood an environment with sensors and smart devices, has been diminished by an inability to adequately address privacy concerns. Measurements of privacy demonstrate a high level of public concern, yet designers of pervasive computing systems do not find these measurements relevant to the use of their systems. This has led designers to distrust r...

Pervasive computing is the technology for the future. With efficient smart spaces and the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless networking standards, there are a lot of interesting potential solutions to many of the current problems. Due to the nomadic life of users, devices that are portable and handheld are highly useful in a pervasive computing environment. But there are severe proble...

There has been an ever-increasing interest in contextaware computing expressed by the pervasive computing community. As researchers attempt to create pervasive systems that are unobtrusively embedded in the environment, completely connected, intuitive, effortlessly portable, and constantly available, often do they run into the problem of ambiguity in the determination of the surrounding context...

A new paradigm in computing has arrived [1]. The pervasive computer provides a new application layer and presents new challenges for application designers. The combination of computing devices provides a unique environmentspecific platform for the development of applications. Applications not only rely on the pervasive computing devices and their interconnections, but also the location of these...

Pervasive computing is expected to enter our everyday life in the foreseeable future. The capabilities of the devices, which operate in such an environment, as well as the range of services offered to the end-users are expected to be significantly increased. However, this new era is expected to have a serious effect on privacy. In this paper, we first refer to the privacy threats identified in ...

‘Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring System (PHMS)’ is one of the important pervasive computing applications aimed at providing healthcare services to all the people through mobile communication devices. Pervasive computing devices are resource constrained devices such as battery power, memory, processing power and bandwidth. In pervasive environment data privacy is a key issue. In this application...

OF THE DISSERTATION Bootstrapping Location-aware Personal Computing by Nishkam Ravi Dissertation Director: Liviu Iftode Pervasive computing is centered around the idea of provisioning computing services to the user anywhere anytime. If realized, pervasive computing can have a significant impact on our daily lives, ranging from the the way we dress to the way we work and travel. Two key hurdles ...

Although ‘Halcyon’ means serene environment which pervasive computing aims at, we have tried to present a different interpretation of this word. Through our approach, we look at it in context of achieving future ‘calm technology’. The paper gives a general overview of the state of pervasive computing today, proposes the ‘HALCYON Model’ and outlines the ‘social’ challenges faced by system design...

Although ‘Halcyon’ means serene environment which pervasive computing aims at, we have tried to present a different interpretation of this word. Through our approach, we look at it in context of achieving future ‘calm technology’. The paper gives a general overview of the state of pervasive computing today, proposes the ‘HALCYON Model’ and outlines the ‘social’ challenges faced by system design...