Context management in virtual home environment systems

Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 293-311

  Xynogalas, Stavros ^a   Roussaki, Ioanna ^a   Chantzara, Maria ^a   Anagnostou, Miltiades ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3G; Context; Personal communications; Virtual Home Environment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO; STANDARDIZATION;

3G; CONTEXT; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION; VIRTUAL HOME ENVIRONMENT (VHE);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 2542506157     PISSN: 02181266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021812660400143X     Document Type: Article

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