1536-1268/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE T oday, mobile devices and gadgets come with more than just a cool and cutting-edge design; they come equipped with small brains and a common language, making them smarter and more powerful than ever before. Perhaps they’re a little too smart—after all, they can adapt and morph into each other and become many-in-one super devices. Mobile phones with PDA capabilit...

Pervasive computing can be defined as access to information and software applications anytime and anywhere. This form of computing is highly dynamic and disaggregated. Users are mobile and services are provided by collections of distributed components collaborating together. Recent advances in mobile computing, service discovery, and distributed computing are key technologies to support pervasi...