E-Learning environments designated to facilitate long-distance learning are gaining popularity. Pervasive computing has a great potential for many next-generation IT applications. This paper describes pervasive computing system design and implementation for Mandarin e-learning. We propose a Human-centered Pervasive Computing System Model (HPC) and Layered Architecture Analysis and Design Method...

Grid computing and pervasive computing have rapidly emerged and affirmed as paradigms for high performance computing and for user-friendly computing respectively. These two separate worlds, however, can now interact each other in such a way that both pervasive and grid computing communities can benefit from integrating the two paradigms into a whole. This conjunction is already taking place to ...

This paper explores proactive and pervasive computing, and looks at the challenges faced by middleware for pervasive computing. Pervasive or ubiquitous computing is a vast area of research that has implications for networking, applications, development environments, user interfaces, remote sensing, and even the form of what we today know as a computer. It seeks to connect computers to one anoth...