On behalf of the organizing committee of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS 2008), we are pleased to welcome you to Sorrento, Italy.
This is the 5th ICPS and it has become one of the premier conferences to bring together researchers from all over the world to meet, discuss and collaborate to bring about our collective vision of a Pervasive Computing reality.
Our aim is to create systems and tools that are ubiquitously and unobtrusively embedded into our very environment. To achieve this we require systems combining connectivity, intuitiveness, effortlessness and reliability bringing us many exciting research challenges. This vision of pervasive systems has brought about a paradigm shift in computer science, as well as other areas of research such as electronic engineering, building architecture, bio-engineering and even the arts. This inter-disciplinary effort has reemphasised older topics in the area of autonomy, ad hoc networking, user-interfacing, security etc and bring a focus to new topics such as context-awareness, self-management, smart objects, smart spaces and energy efficiency. We hope you agree that ICPS 08 reflects this vibrancy.
ICPS 2008 is sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and Consorizio Interuniversitario Nazionale per L'Informatica. The proceedings, published by the ACM, constitute the 17 full papers, 8 short papers, 4 workshops, demo and poster sessions all presented by people from over 17 countries world wide. There continues to be a strong body of research focusing on Middleware support for pervasive and mobile computing. Here we see Service Oriented Architectures amongst others, handling decentralisation and heterogeneity of not only sensor devices but the more recent advances in actuator technology. The very nature of a pervasive computing brings issues of trust and engagement to the fore and these are covered in the Security services and Mobile Computing sections. In particular we examine data management and routing for these devices and how we would handle multiple identities in ubiquity. Environments & algorithms for pervasive application development presents two sessions including the areas of location and context-awareness from the point of view of transport navigation, multi-sensor systems, as well as smart museum and home spaces. We also see context-awareness and adaptivity for improved performance in the Middleware support and Wireless & Sensor Networks section. Finally, our Pervasive computing and Management session encompasses context uncertainty and fault detection.
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A three-party architecture and protocol that supports users with multiple identities for use with location based services
In this paper we describe an architecture that supports the secure operation of Location Based Services (LBSs) over the Internet. In particular, we describe a three-party protocol that is used to mutually identify and authenticate users, LBSs, and a ...
A proactive wireless self-protection system
Though mobile computing systems constitute the core of the next generation ubiquitous pervasive services, they still have many flaws in their security. This paper describes a novel framework for wireless anomaly based intrusion detection and response ...
Rational swarm routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc wireless networks
Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc networks (MANET) require dynamic routing schemes for adequate performance. In this paper, we introduce a new dynamic routing scheme based upon stigmergy. In a similar manner to ant-colony based dynamic routing protocols, our ...
Tag and Think: inferring what a sensor node is attached to
The system framework, Tag and Think, proposed here enables us to introduce ubiquitous environments easily and simply by attaching sensor nodes to physical objects without any information about the objects. In the framework, we present a method that uses ...
An independent and non-intrusive laser pointer environment control device system
In this paper we present a system developed to control a computer environment for the handicapped by means of a laser pointer. The system looks for a laser spot position which is projected on the environment by using a laser pointer. Handicapped people ...
Adaptive navigation of vehicles in congested road networks
We examine the problem of routing vehicles in a road network where traffic congestion affects the time required to traverse an edge. We propose a fully distributed approach that uses only the computational resources and communication capabilities of ...
A model-based approach for engineering pervasive services in SOAs
Significant interest exists within the pervasive computing community for representing context-aware services at different stages of the software lifecycle. While most of these efforts have focused on the design and implementation of context-aware ...
Estimation of relative position between real objects using sensor nodes
In this paper, we describe the challenge of estimating the relative position between objects using a low-cost positioning device with a simple physical restriction. Also, we show the result of our experiment to examine the accuracy in estimation of the ...
A pervasive identification service for physical access control
In pervasive environments managing people access control to physical places through their digital identity and simple, uniform, non-invasive yet secure mechanisms, is certainly an important issue. We face this problem by proposing a new secure one-time-...
Semantic service discovery in pervasive computing environment
Semantic web services are ontologically annotated software resources that might be executed across the web. The use of ontologies facilitates service discovery, automatic execution and composition of complex services. This paper describes the ...
Home SOA -: facing protocol heterogeneity in pervasive applications
Numerous innovative applications are envisioned in the home area network today, mixing current or nearly marketable applications: multimedia content sharing, home comfort, home surveillance, people care. The home network becomes a ground for pervasive ...
Experience of context-aware services in public spaces
This paper describes experiences with theM-Spaces location model in real spaces. To demonstrate the utility and effectiveness of the model, we constructed location/user-dependent audio-guide systems for museums based on the model. These systems are ...
Implementation of a federated database on bluetooth-enabled mobile devices
Professionals as well as other types of personnel are finding it increasingly necessary to communicate and gain access to data while on the go or when not pinned to their wired workstations. Much of this is driven by compressed time schedules, busier ...
A middleware framework for market-based actuator coordination in sensor and actuator networks
Sensor and actuator networks (SANETs) are a growing class of distributed systems combining sensors for environmental monitoring with actuators for reacting to environmental changes and controlling its dynamic processes. As SANETs evolve to accommodate ...
A P2P SOA enabling group collaboration through service composition
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm was introduced for exposing business processes as services and enabling their interaction and composition over the Internet. The same computing model can potentially be extended to services of personal ...
SStreaMWare: a service oriented middleware for heterogeneous sensor data management
Smart sensors are already being used in various application domains such as medical, environmental, urban, domestic and industrial. These applications mostly need data from sensors of different types (temperature, pressure, location, camera, etc.) that ...
Resolving uncertainty in context integration and abstraction: context integration and abstraction
Pervasive computing is typically highly sensor-driven, but sensors provide only evidence of fact rather than facts themselves. The uncertainty of sensor data will affect each component in a pervasive computing system, which may decrease the quality of ...
A service distribution protocol for mobile ad hoc networks
Achieving high service availability is a key requirement when deploying service-based applications over ad hoc networks. Without high availability, reliable service execution cannot be achieved. Ad hoc network characteristics like ever-changing topology ...
Anomaly-based fault detection in pervasive computing system
The increased complexity of hardware and software resources and the asynchronous interaction among components (such as servers, end devices, network, services and software) make fault detection and recovery very challenging. In this paper, we present ...
TTCG: three-tier context gathering technique for mobile devices
Previous research on sensor networks mainly focused on efficient transmission of data from sensors to fixed sink nodes. Recently there has been active research on mobile sink nodes, but the re-search of an environment where both fixed sink nodes and ...
A framework for adapting the distribution of automatic application configuration
Numerous current research projects deal with the issue of automatic application configuration in pervasive computing scenarios. While completely distributed configuration is inevitable in infrastructure-less ad hoc scenarios, many realistic pervasive ...
A self-adaptation of software component structures in ubiquitous environments
The creation of applications able to be executed in ubiquitous environments, involves a better consideration of the execution context in order to ensure service continuity. In component-based software engineering, applications are built by assembling ...
A contents recommendation scheme using user's affection and shopping motive
This paper proposes a contents recommendation scheme using user's affection and shopping motive to improve the accuracy of recommendation. In this paper, joy, sadness, anger, happiness, and relaxation are considered as the user's affection. And the user'...
A client profile framework for providing adapted contents in ubiquitous environments
In this paper, we propose a client-side framework to process profiles that are necessary to provide a user with adapted content with user's context. To provide adapted content to users, the profile must be included various user related information as ...
Towards seamless user mobility in service oriented environments via context awareness
The enterprise today is composed of a number of small but powerful devices that are capable of consuming as well as hosting services. However mobility results in a change in the operating context which may in turn affect how the client consumes services ...
A rule engine to process acceleration data on small sensor nodes
In this paper, we propose a compact rule processing engine to process acceleration data on a small sensor device. Our proposed engine enables us to develop applications using acceleration data on the small device with a quite simple and short ...
An object identification method for segregated and reproduced contents
Many people have been illegally copying contents and pasting them on their blogs or other places or distributing them among other users with slight modifications, issues related distribution, accounting, and copyrights have become serious social ...
- Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Pervasive services
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Acceptance Rates
Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
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ICPS '09 | 34 | 23 | 68% |
Overall | 34 | 23 | 68% |