Location, presence and messaging services provide the essential ingredients for emerging information and communications services. Nevertheless, the users are concerned about revea...
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...
We present the design goals and functional components of MASTAQ, a data management middleware for pervasive applications that utilize sensor data. MASTAQ allows applications to sp...
Mobile computers are subject to a unique form of denial of service attack known as a battery exhaustion attack, in which an attacker attempts to rapidly drain the battery of the d...
Daniel C. Nash, Thomas L. Martin, Dong S. Ha, Mich...
As pervasive computing environments become popular, ID devices, such as smart cards and RFID tags, introduce multi-service environments, in which a user can receive multiple servi...