V ir tualization technology— as applied in embedded devices such as mobile smartphones— is a practical means for the widespread deployment of pervasive computing applications. As anyone who reads this magazine knows, pervasive computing is all about moving beyond the desktop PC to the computational and digital devices that surround us in our daily lives. The “application” is dynamically spread ...

Pervasive computing environments are characterized by an additional heterogeneity compared to existing computing infrastructures. Devices ranging from small embedded systems to full-fledged computers are connected via spontaneously formed networks. In this paper we analyze requirements of applications and system software to cope with the dynamically changing execution environment. Based on our ...

Middleware support is a major topic in pervasive computing. Existing studies mainly address the issues in the organization of and the collaboration amongst devices and services, but pay little attention to the design support of context-aware pervasive applications. Most of these applications are required to be adaptable to dynamic environments and self-managed. However, most contextaware pervas...

Pervasive computing is the next generation computing environment with information and communication technology everywhere, for everyone, at any time. There are many methods proposed to reach the ultimate design goals of pervasive computing. Most of them are still at the hypothesis and early stages. In this paper, an initial investigation has been carried out to use active networks as the operat...

In the last years ontologies are being used in the development of pervasive computing applications. It is habitual their use for facilitating the interoperability among context-aware applications and the entities that may enter in the context at any time. This chapter presents OntoHealth: an ontology applied to health pervasive environment and a tool to its processing. The main idea is that a h...