Middleware for pervasive computing is an active area of research that is now starting to mature. Prototypical systems have been developed and used for demonstration applications in a number of domains. However, realistic pervasive environments of the future will need to integrate with enterprise systems, including software, hardware, databases, standards, and life cycle. Designing and implement...

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REQUIRED) To facilitate superior healthcare delivery and address current challenges facing healthcare today a plethora of pervasive ehealth solutions are emerging. However, existing regulatory regimes are ill-equipped for dealing with them. This not only causes frustration to various stakeholders including patients, providers, healthcare organizations and payers, not to mention vendors but also...

Use of technology in healthcare to improve quality of life, real-time patient monitoring and large scale studies of human behavior is very active area of research. Advances in ubiquitous communication, pervasive computing and ambient intelligence has given rise to smart objects that can communicate and cooperate to build network of things to perform physical computing. Pervasive healthcare syst...

In recent years, provisioning of human-centric services through body area networks, robotics technology and cloud computing is continuously attracting extensive attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, we propose a novel robotics and cloudassisted healthcare system (ROCHAS), which combines these three technologies to provide pervasive healthcare services and especially the ment...

The hearing healthcare scenario is rapidly evolving due to the pervasive use of m-Health solutions, in particular mobile apps. This brings along significant advantages and opportunities (e.g., accessibility, affordability, personalized healthcare, patient empowerment) as well as significant potential risks and threats (e.g., safety, misuse, quality issues, privacy). Our research aims at the ide...