Pervasive computing is often mentioned in the context of improving healthcare. This paper presents a novel approach for diagnosing diabetes using neural networks and pervasive healthcare computing technologies. The recent developments in small mobile devices and wireless communications provide a strong motivation to develop new software techniques and mobile services for pervasive healthcare co...

The increase in the use of mobile & embedded devices, coupled with ad-hoc, short range wireless networking is enabling pervasive computing. This pervasive computing environment and the wired Grid infrastructure can be combined to make the Computation and Information Grid truly pervasive. This paper identifies some of the interesting research issues and challenges in creating such a pervasive Gr...

This paper focuses on the effects of pervasive computing on today’s software technology. We present an existing software application for communication as a case study and establish a set of requirements this application should accomplish to become a pervasive computing application. We define what a pervasive communication is and identify the need for distributed context adaptation schemes.

OF THE THESIS Snap: A Local, Asynchronous Interaction Framework For Pervasive Applications by Venkatesh Putty Thesis Director: Professor Manish Parashar Evolution in our computing needs has seen evolution in all spheres of computing with advances in device technology and the software infrastructure driving these systems. The road ahead is through frameworks that aid us in comprehending, develop...

P ERVASIVE healthcare may be defined from two perspectives: first, as the application of pervasive computing—or ubiquitous computing, proactive computing, ambient intel-ligence—technologies for healthcare, health, and wellness management; second, as making healthcare available everywhere , anytime—pervasively. Essentially, pervasive healthcare addresses those technologies and concepts that inte...

Over the last 10 years, pervasive computing environments and mobile networks have become extremely popular. Despite the many end user benefits of pervasive computing, the intrinsic instability and context ambiguities of these environments pose impediments to data-oriented decision support systems. In pervasive computing environments where users, systems, and computing resources are distributed ...

Developing software for dynamic pervasive computing networks can be an intimidating prospect. While much research has focused on developing and describing algorithms and protocols for these environments, the process of deploying these technologies is far from mature or streamlined. Furthermore, the heterogeneity of computing platforms present in pervasive computing networks can make the deploym...

Pervasive computing will introduce hundreds of computing devices per user. This change is of such magnitude that it is qualitative as well as quantitative. Old solutions may not scale when the size of the problem grows by such a factor—passwords, for example, will no longer be a suitable user authentication method. In this paper we examine new security issues for pervasive computing including a...