Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications

✍ Scribed by Dragan Stojanovic, Dragan Stojanovic

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advances in mobile computing, wireless communications, mobile positioning, and sensor technologies have given rise to a new class of context-aware mobile and ubiquitous applications.

Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications provides thorough insights and significant research developments on mobile technologies and services. This significant reference book explains how users of such applications access intelligent and adaptable information services, maximizing convenience and minimizing intrusion.

✦ Table of Contents

Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 18
Preface......Page 22
References......Page 29
Acknowledgment......Page 30
Context-Aware Adaptation inan Ecology of Applications......Page 32
Ontology Based Context-Aware Adaptation Approach......Page 57
Context-Aware Applications for the Web:A Model-Driven Development Approach......Page 90
Distributed Context Management in Support of Multiple Remote Users......Page 115
An Adaptable Context Management Framework for Pervasive Computing......Page 145
Context-Aware Database Querying:Recent Progress and Challenges......Page 178
Employing Context Information and Semantics to Advance Responsiveness in Service Composition......Page 201
A Methodology for the Design, Development and Validation of Adaptive and Context-Aware Mobile Services......Page 222
Bridging the Gap between Mobile Application Contexts and Semantic Web Resources......Page 248
Adaptive Resource and Service Management in a Mobile-Enabled Environment......Page 266
Kindergarten:A Novel Communication Mechanism for Mobile Context-Aware Applications......Page 289
Access Control in Mobile and Ubiquitous Environments......Page 309
Privacy Automation in Context-Aware Services......Page 326
Leveraging Semantic Technologies towards Social Ambient Intelligence......Page 342
An Evaluation of Context-Aware Infomobility Systems......Page 369
Incorporating Human Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications:The Next Generation of Intelligent User Interfaces......Page 393
Compilation of References......Page 414
About the Contributors......Page 449
Index......Page 460