Designing next generation middleware for context-aware ubiquitous and pervasive computing

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 197-206

  Roussaki, Ioanna G ^a   Strimpakou, Maria A ^b   Anagnostou, Miltiades E ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business model; CA; Context awareness; Context management; Middleware; Pervasive computing; Service provisioning architecture; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

CONTEXT AWARENESS; SERVICE PROVISIONING ARCHITECTURE;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 34248361208     PISSN: 17438225     EISSN: 17438233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2007.012420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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