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Advancements in technology for the past few decades influenced in all the fields lead to the drastic improvement of smartness and smart systems. This Paper proposes one such smart system for banking environment based on context history. Since it is based on context history the system involves ubiquity and intelligent environment as well. Banking sector is an Industry that shows tremendous growth....
This paper presents two different approaches to visualise information from culture, media and creative industries by using RFID based tracking and identification. Besides the required RFID backend, the paper also introduces the information system built on top of the backend. The first approach is based on passive RFID whereas the second uses active RFID. In particular, the differences in the processing...
We present a novel software architecture for context-aware applications based on a distributed, non-monolithic, simple and extensible relational model for representing context; a service-oriented architecture for computing these relations in a decoupled, flexible fashion; and with data driven, event based communication providing the kind of fine grained dynamic service composition required in mobile...
Content usage statistics from superdistribution users have great commercial values since they can be used for any number of purposes including marketing, accounting, and/or fraud prevention. However tracking content usage under the superdistribution model poses a great challenge since most content users have no explicit pre-established relationship with the content provider. In this paper, we present...
The size of the publicly indexable World Wide Web (WWW) has probably surpassed 14.3 billion documents and as yet growth shows no sign of leveling off. Search engines encounter the problem of ambiguity in words; therefore, search engines use ontology to find pages with words that are syntactically different but semantically similar. The knowledge provided by ontology is extremely useful in defining...
For better user personalization, this paper explores the collecting and processing method of network users' behavior data with multi-source heterogeneity and analyzes network user behavior on the basis of context by the theory called Situation Awareness. Then, a new efficient algorithm is presented by using internet context to ensure the model of user interest auxiliary. Further, a structure model...
Integrity checking is important in many activities, such as logistic, telecommunication or even day to day tasks such as checking for someone missing in a group. While the computing and telecommunication worlds commonly use digital integrity checking, many activities from the real world do not beneficiate from automatic mechanisms for ensuring integrity. We propose a spatial computing approach where...
As computing devices become more pervasive, our daily activities start generating a vast amount of information that could be exploited for helping us better understand ourselves. In this paper we present a system that uses easily available data correlated into a story-based representation aimed at providing users with a better understanding of their lifestyles. While this is still work in progress,...
Spatial information is very important because context such as location information is one of the key issues to realize ubiquitous spatial infrastructure. However, there are many specifications for spatial information model and establishing a common infrastructure for spatial information model is difficult. To solve the problem, we propose a new spatial information model based on ucR. Our model has...
Privacy is considered to be a critical issue for providing high quality ubiquitous network services to users over the Internet. User's privacy should be protected and access to privacy information must be controlled in accordance with user's privacy preferences. Existing privacy-aware access control strategies often store all the privacy access control policies on the server side and thus fail to...
Advances in wireless communication and powerful computing technologies will eventually lead to a digital environment in which computing functionality will be embedded in all kinds of objects, which are capable of recognizing and responding to individual needs in a seamless, unobtrusive, and often invisible way. Such a vision was coined Ambient Intelligence (AmI), whose aim is to bring information...
Web2.0 has ushered a new era of Internet where social networks offer numerous services that can be consumed in a ubiquitous manner. In this paper, we introduce a context-aware social network framework that can dynamically mashup a person's social networks. The context-awareness is realized by combining a novel real estate based layout management system and sensory data coming from one's body sensor...
A typical recommendation system answers such questions as what are the interesting items for the current user. Most traditional recommendation systems have not taken the situational information into account when making recommendations, which seriously limits their effectiveness in the ubiquitous computing application environment, where a user's request is generally related to, and a system's response...
Context-aware database is frequently used in user-centric applications. The users normally tend to express their preferences through comparisons. For example, Bob prefers Cornell to USC. Because the users only compare a small proportion of the products under difference contexts, ??incomplete?? preferences are a common occurrence. We propose a ranking approach which can contextually rank the query...
Data as a Service (DaaS) emerges as a new trend for exchanging data between independent data owners and data users so that data can be acquired on demand through standard protocols across heterogeneous platforms. It is usually a user-interactive and iterative process to compose the services into various data-driven business scenarios of data acquisition, analysis, and other processing activities....
In this paper, a hierarchical system is proposed for generating personalization action and activity recognition rules. Multi-level decision rule mining approach in our system not only discovers personal habit of device using, but also finds personal pattern of devices operation manner. First, it processes non-sequential procedure, which mines user's historical action database for constructing rules...
This paper describes a personal agent to assist users in dealing with personal and psycho-spiritual issues. As Internet-based applications move beyond simple information presentation and social networking, the use of agent technology to create a personal, customized, and comforting presence becomes possible. This ability derives from an agent implementation that can offer thousands of years of spiritual...
This paper focuses on a new framework for an intelligent environment to respond intelligently to persons being in a ubiquitous computing environment. The framework contains 1. context notations to have a three-key-predicate relations (location, activity and response awareness), 2. taxonomy of the context aware computing in responding to user activity and 3. context aware application design to respond...
The European2228319 research project ??C-Cast?? (context-aware content casting) aims at providing an end-to-end system design for context-aware services and content provisioning. The project does not limit itself to reasoning but embraces also efficient service provisioning to user groups detected and formed according to the inferred user context. This paper presents the architecture components related...
Research on ubiquitous environment has been being conducted actively until now. In particular, a user positioning system provides user location data, which is the most important context information in applications based on context information. Despite their many advantages, existing applications, which do not consider elements related to real-time data communication among remote RFID devices, cannot...
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