With the advent of pervasive computing environments, the issue related to context-aware middleware is an emerging area of research. We propose proactive services on the basis of CAMUS (Context-Aware Middleware for URC Systems). First, this paper presents the system architecture of CAMUS. CAMUS is a middleware for providing context-aware applications with development and execution methodology. A...

1 Game of Life music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Eduardo R. Miranda and Alexis Kirke 1.1 A brief introduction to GoL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Rending musical forms from GoL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 CAMUS: Cartesian representation of note sets . . . . . . . ...

absolute-was called into doubt, the more difficult it was for the human being to embrace a cosmic meaning system. But meaning systems cannot be relinquished without some substitute. Perhaps we can forgo the answer to the question, Why do we live? but it is not easy to postpone the question, How shall we live? Modern secular humans face the task of finding some direction to life without an exter...

Context-awareness is one of the fundamental requirements for achieving user-oriented ubiquity. In this paper, we present the design and approach to a middleware solution that expedites context-awareness in a ubiquitous computing environment. Context-Aware Middleware for Ubiquitous computing Systems (CAMUS) envisions a comprehensive middleware solution that not only focuses on providing context ...

CaMus allows collaborative performance with mobile camera phones. The original CaMus project was extended to support multiple phones performing in the same space and generating MIDI signals to control sound generation and manipulation software or hardware. Through an optical flow technology the system can be used without a reference marker grid. When using a marker grid, the use of dynamic digi...

CaMus is a multi-user multi-phone extension of the CaMus system. Mobile camera phones use their cameras to track position, rotation, height, and other parameters over a marker sheet to allow interactive performance of music. Multiple camera phones can use the same or separate marker sheets and send their interaction parameters via Bluetooth to a computer where the sensor information is converte...

To realize the vision of ubiquitous computing, it is important to develop a context-aware infrastructure which can help ubiquitous agents, services, and devices become aware of their contexts because such computational entities need to adapt themselves to changing situations. A context-aware infrastructure manages the context model representing contextual information and provides appropriate in...

This paper focuses on issues concerning musical composition practices whereby the emergent behaviour of cellular automata is used to model generative processes for synthesised sound and musical forms. We introduce two cellular automata-based systems, Chaosynth and CAMUS, that we have designed for our investigation and discuss their performance and role in the composition of a number of professi...

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was born in Algeria, which was then a French colonial possession. His father was killed in battle in World War I a year after Albert’s birth, leaving his family in poverty. Camus worked his way through the university of Algiers by doing odd jobs, but dropped out after a severe bout of tuberculosis. He then turned to journalism, writing for an anti-colonial newspaper in ...