Pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. Computational power will be available everywhere. Mobile and stationary devices will dynamically connect and coordinate to seamlessly help users in accomplishing their tasks. However, for this vision to become a reality, developers must build applications that constantly adapt to a highly dynamic computing environmen...

Roger W h itaker Cardiff University ously wash floods of information over individuals . Both personal devices (mobile computers, smartphones, smart cars, and smart homes) and public ICT systems (digital signage and smart cities) create and share this data, making it difficult for the individual to allocate his or her attention to the right things at the rigt time. Given this overabundance of in...

Mobile Computing platforms such as mobile phones, PDAs or wearable computers operate in a much more volatile and limited environment than their stationary counterparts. Such platforms are inherently resource poor and subject to highly changeable resource availability. Applications for Mobile Computing require adaptation for best performance under such variable conditions, to make best use of av...

M any countries recognize privacy as a right and have attempted to codify it in law. The first known piece of privacy legislation was England's 1361 Justices of the Peace Act, which legislated for the arrest of eaves-droppers and stalkers. The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution proclaims citizens' right to privacy , and in 1890 US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated that " the righ...