Academic: Ubiquitous computing Ebooks

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Ambient Intelligenceby Paolo Remagnino; Gian Luca Foresti; Tim Ellis
Springer 2005; US$ 139.00
Ambient intelligence is the vision of a technology that will become invisibly embedded in our natural surroundings, present whenever we need it, enabled by simple and effortless interactions, attuned to all our senses, adaptive to users and context-sensitive, and autonomous. High-quality information access and personalized content must be available to everybody, anywhere, and at any time. This book addresses ambient intelligence used to support human contacts and accompany an individual's path through the complicated modern world. more...
Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computingby Philip Robinson
Springer 2005; US$ 149.00
Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing is an edited volume based on a post workshop at the second international conference on Pervasive Computing. The workshop was held April18-23, 2004, in Vienna, Austria. The goal of the workshop was not to focus on specific, even novel mechanisms, but rather on the interfaces between mechanisms in different technical and social problem spaces. An investigation of the interfaces between the notions of context, privacy, security, and trust will result in a deeper understanding of the "atomic" problems, leading to a more complete understanding of the social and technical issues in pervasive computing. more...
Context-Aware Pervasive Systemsby Seng Loke
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 79.95
The concept of aware systems is one of the most exciting trends in computing today, fueled by recent developments in pervasive computing. This book introduces a new breed of computer applications that are termed ''context-aware pervasive systems'' and provides architectural blueprints for building context-aware behavior into applications. It reviews the anatomy of context-aware pervasive applications, including mobile services, and discusses the integration of context-aware computing with software agents and the Web. It also explores the use of context-awareness for addressing and communications. This text distills general design principles and a generic architecture for context-aware applications. more...
Ambient Intelligenceby W. Weber; J.M. Rabaey; E. Aarts
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 249.00
Addresses ambient intelligence used to support human contacts and accompany an individual's path through the complicated modern world, from applications that are imminent, since they use essentially existing technologies, to ambitious ideas whose realization is still far away, due to major unsolved technical challenges. more...
Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networkingby Boleslaw K. Szymanski; Bulent Yener
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 129.00
Deals with such topics as a scalable, self-organizing technology for sensor networks, the fundamental relationship between the achievable capacity and delay in mobile wireless networks, the role of self-optimization in sensor networks or similarities and differences between computer networks and their biological counterparts. more...
The Internet of Thingsby Lu Yan
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 99.95
Reflecting trends and directions in the industry, this book provides comprehensive technical guidance to developments in pervasive networked systems. more...
Advances in Ambient Intelligenceby J.C. Augusto; D. Shapiro
IOS Press 2007; US$ 130.00
Contains contributions which provide a window into the visions and trends dominating the area of Ambient Intelligence. This book addresses the core technology of the field and provides an analysis of elements of the area which will demand special consideration during the future development of the area. more...
Recent Advances in Wireless CTs for UbiCompby Sherali Zeadally; Lu Yan
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00
There has been a rapid growth in ubiquitous systems research in networking environments during the past few years. Many novel architectures, protocols, algorithms, and applications have been proposed, implemented, and evaluated. The issues and challenges for the development of such technologies not only encompass a broad spectrum of research topics but also involve envision new multi-disciplinary applications that will change the way in which we live and work. The goal of this e-book is to bring to the attention of the readers some the latest technical developments and state-of-the-art research results in the fast moving field of ubiquitous computing. For this e-book, we have selected papers that focus on two main themes that have direct impact... more...
Digitale Visionenby Alexander Rosnagel; Tom Sommerlatte; Udo Winand
Springer 2008; US$ 49.95
Allgegenw�rtige, im Hintergrund wirkende Informationstechnik k�nnte den Menschen in allen Lebensbereichen ?mitdenkend" unterst�tzen. Angesichts einer weiteren Verschiebung der intellektuellen und physischen Grenzen des Menschen dr�ngt sich allerdings die Frage auf: Wie wollen wir angesichts dieser M�glichkeiten k�nftig leben? Namhafte Experten beschreiben die wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Folgen und ihre Auswirkungen auf Weltbild und Selbstbild des Menschen. Sie gehen der Frage nach, wie diese Entwicklung gestaltend zu beeinflussen ist. more...
Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2008by Juan M. Corchado; Dante I. Tapia
Springer 2008; US$ 209.00
The Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI) began as a workshop held in 2003 in San Sebasti�n (Spain) under the Spanish Artificial Intelligence Conference. This event gathered 32 attendees and 18 papers were presented. The second edition, already as a Symposium, took place in Granada (Spain) under the first Spanish Computer Science Conference (CEDI). Later, in 2006, a second workshop was celebrated in Ciudad Real and, in 2007; the second Symposium was organized in Zaragoza by the CEDI conference. Now we continue to work on the organization of this event in Salamanca, a beautiful Spanish city. The European Community and the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programs encourage researchers to explore the generic scope of the... more...