Moving away from decades of machine-centric computing and making pervasive human-centric computing, the new wave of computing, a reality revolutionises the relationship between humans and computing systems. In order to implement the vision of pervasive human-centric computing, it is necessary to reform software engineering education to well prepare graduates of software engineering programmes f...

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 ...

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 ...

Pervasive computing applications involve both software concerns, like any software system, and integration concerns, for the constituent networked devices of the pervasive computing environment. This situation is problematic for testing because it requires acquiring, testing and interfacing a variety of software and hardware entities. This process can rapidly become costly and time-consuming wh...

Grid computing and pervasive computing have affirmed respectively as the paradigm for high performance computing and the paradigm for user-friendly computing. The conjunction of such paradigms are now generating a new one: the Pervasive Grid Computing. This paper presents a middleware for pervasive grid applications. It consists of a set of basic services that aim to enhance classic grid enviro...