Timely and personalized services using mobile cellular data

Automating the Creation of Personalized Mobile Multimedia Services using Cellware

Future nomadic computing and personal mobility services are likely to be diverse and sophisticated in nature. We introduce ‘Cellware’, an architecture that automates the creation of personalized mobile multimedia services. Cellware captures the diversity of personal mobility services using a simple programmable abstraction called ‘cell’. Cells are event-driven middleware components that can be ...

Personalized Mobile Multimedia meets Location-Based Services

When traveling and visiting new places, tourists are mobile as they wander around and follow tours through cities and landscapes. Location-based mobile systems today typically provide and deliver the the same information to all users which however does not necessarily meet the individual user’s needs. In the presented approach, we aim to address the limitations of mobile devices, the unreliabil...

On User Privacy in Personalized Mobile Services

Timely Provisioning of Mobile Services in Critical Pervasive Environments

Timeliness in conventional real-time systems is addressed by employing well-known scheduling techniques that guarantee the execution of a number of tasks within certain deadlines. However, these classical scheduling techniques do not take into account basic features that characterize today’s critical pervasive computing environments. In this paper, we revisit the issue of timeliness in the cont...

Adaptive and Personalized Educational Ubiquitous Multi-Agent System Using Context-Awareness Services and Mobile Devices

In the last decade, some useful contributions have occurred to elearning system development such as adaptation, ubiquity, personalization, as well as context-awareness services. The aim of this paper is to present the advantages brought by the integration of ubiquitous computing along with distributed artificial intelligence techniques in order to build an adaptive and personalized context-awar...