Mark Weiser’s vision of computers moving out of our focus of attention and becoming oblivious devices that occur in large numbers and provide smart computing und communication services to individuals as needed is still far from being reality.
This book puts the larger vision of ubiquitous computing in the context of today’s mobile and distributed computing systems and presents innovative solutions at all system layers ranging from hardware over vertical and horizontal infrastructure services and novel middleware techniques to various types of application software.
Some chapters address core properties of ubiquitous applications including mobility, self-healing and self-organisation of both technical and social-technical systems. Other contributions deal with common facilities like secure e-payment or semantic web techniques and business solutions like wireless asset management or e- maintenance. Distributed systems management with self-monitoring capabilities, Internet congestion control, and novel security solutions coping with denial of service attacks against mobile agent systems and software- and hardware-based data encryption methods are further topics addressed.
Author(s): Stefanos Zachariadis, Manish Lad, Cecilia Mascolo, Wolfgang Emmerich (auth.), Prof. Dr. Bernd J. Krämer, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang A. Halang (eds.)
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 42
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 342
City: Berlin; New York
Tags: Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Building Adaptable Mobile Middleware Services Using Logical Mobility Techniques....Pages 3-26
Towards Self-healing Composition of Services....Pages 27-46
Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 47-69
Common-interest Based Self-organising E-Learner Communities....Pages 71-94
A Service Component Architecture to Federate E-Universities: A Case Study in Virtual Mobility....Pages 95-119
Front Matter....Pages 122-122
Wireless Asset Management....Pages 123-138
Knowledge Management for E-Maintenance of Industrial Automation Systems....Pages 139-155
Using Formal Concept Analysis for Semantic Web Applications....Pages 157-176
A Fair Off-line Electronic Payment System....Pages 177-195
A UML Profile to Model Safety-Critical Embedded Real-Time Control Systems....Pages 197-218
Front Matter....Pages 220-220
Probabilistic Management of Distributed Systems....Pages 221-248
Denial of Service Detection in Mobile Agent Systems with Dependencies in Computations....Pages 249-268
Fighting Internet Congestion by Means of Chaos Control....Pages 269-283
Securing Communication by Chaos-based Encryption....Pages 285-306
A Chip Performing Chaotic Stream Encryption....Pages 307-332
Back Matter....Pages 333-339
