Location- and Context-Awareness
Subtitle: First International Workshop, LoCA 2005, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, May 12-13, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Thomas Strang (Editor); Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9783540258964
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; Networking - General; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Information Technology; Computers / Information Technology; GPS; context-aware computing; location sensing; location-aware communication services; location-aware systems; pervasive computing; positioning algorithms; Information Storage & Retrieval; Congresses; Data processing; Mobile communication systems; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing
First sentence: Pervasive computing is about the creation of environments saturated with computing and communication capabilities, yet having those devices integrated into the environment such that they disappear [1].