Context-Aware Computing and Nature-Inspired Computing

Context-Aware Computing

Context-aware Mobile Computing

In the past, research in context-aware mobile computing and applications mainly focused on location-based systems. While location is a crucial and vital part of context information, it’s only a subset thereof. Mobile context systems need to utilize more than just spatial information. Any information on the environment relevant to the user’s task can serve as context data. This information cover...

Context-Aware Computing

Situations let people act accordingly to it. Smartphones and other current devices can detect and react on such contextual data, because they have multiple sensors and enough processing performance to analyse that. Such behavior is called context-aware and a key to make devices faster and more efficient in everyday life. This paper describes what context and context-aware is and how application...

Handbook of Nature - Inspired and Innovative Computing

The ambitious goal of the Handbook of Nature-Inspired and Innovative Computing is to “to be a Virtual Get Together of several researchers that one could invite to attend a conference on ‘futurism’ dealing with the theme of Computing in the 21st Century.” The Handbook contains 22 chapters, written in a “workshop style,” meaning that little to no background is required from the reader except for ...

Context-Aware Wireless Ubiquitous Computing

Marc Weiser's vision [1] on ubiquitous computing includes the demand for wireless solutions towards a large scale inter-connected environment where all participating nodes are acting autonomously, but transparent to the user. Context-aware computing is one technology to support wireless ubiquitous computing as it enables services and applications in the wireless communication environment to ben...