International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 2 Issue 3

Pervasive Management

Tom Pfeifer, Vincent Wade, Nazim Agoulmine

The explosive growth of the Internet, the proliferation of mobile networks and the increasing difficulty in managing multi‐vendor environments and the services that they provide…

User‐sensitive and quality‐driven discovery of context information for the successful delivery of context‐aware services

Maria Chantzara, Miltiades Anagnostou

The successful provision of context‐awareness in pervasive environments requires the support of autonomic management facilities that provide ways to efficiently acquire and use…

COMPACT: Middleware for context representation and management in pervasive computing

Maria Strimpakou, Ioanna Roussaki, Carsten Pils, Miltiades Anagnostou

Context awareness is one of the key aspects of pervasive computing systems. In such systems, a plethora of dynamic context information needs to be constantly retrieved, soundly…

An adaptive model for reconfigurable autonomous services using profiling

Sébastien Truchat, Gerhard Fuchs, Falko Dressler, Steffen Meyer

The importance of mobile services in our everyday life is growing while at the same time new interoperability issues arise due to hardware and software heterogeneity. Therefore…

A biologically‐inspired multi‐agent framework for autonomic service management

Frank Chiang, Robin Braun, John Hughes

This paper describes the design of a scalable bio‐mimetic framework that addresses several key issues of autonomous agents in the functional management domain of complex…

Enabling autonomous management of distributed pervasive environments

Mohammed Ganna, Eric Horlait

Current networks are providing plenty of services that users can access and use. These services are more and more pervasive and deployed in different networks distributed across…

Semantics for the intuitive governance of autonomic user‐centered pervasive computing environments

Tony O’Donnell, David Lewis, Vincent Wade

As Pervasive Computing environments become more richly populated with sensors and computing power it may be possible for the environment to observe and interpret user actions and…