Users and developers require some way to identify by human readable names the many resources that comprise a ubiquitous computing environment. In addition, naming in such environm...
In this paper, we propose a system for contextaware battery management that warns the user when it detects that the phone battery can run out before the next charging opportunity ...
One of the challenges in pervasive computing is communication between a mobile user's terminal and the continuously changing local environment. Bluetooth is one potential opt...
In this paper, we present a general architecture and a new retrieval method for an educational system that is based on a knowledge base of existing recorded lectures. The extracti...
In this paper, we describe the middleware that has evolved from our attempt to capture user descriptions of policies controlling devices and services from natural language. Descri...
Bill Keller, Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Julie Weeds, D...