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Pervasive Computing and Networking

Author : Mohammad S. Obaidat
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111997142X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Pervasive Computing and Networking by : Mohammad S. Obaidat

Download or read book Pervasive Computing and Networking written by Mohammad S. Obaidat and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents state-of-the-art research on architectures, algorithms, protocols and applications in pervasive computing and networks With the widespread availability of wireless and mobile networking technologies and the expected convergence of ubiquitous computing with these emerging technologies in the near future, pervasive computing and networking research and applications are among the hot topics on the agenda of researchers working on the next generation of mobile communications and networks. This book provides a comprehensive guide to selected topics, both ongoing and emerging, in pervasive computing and networking. It contains contributions from high profile researchers and is edited by leading experts in this field. The main topics covered in the book include pervasive computing and systems, pervasive networking security, and pervasive networking and communication. Key Features: Discusses existing and emerging communications and computing models, design architectures, mobile and pervasive wireless applications, technology and research challenges in pervasive computing systems, networking and communications Provides detailed discussions of key research challenges and open research issues in the field of autonomic computing and networking Offers information on existing experimental studies including case studies, implementation test-beds in industry and academia Includes a set of PowerPoint slides for each chapter for instructors adopting it as a textbook Pervasive Computing and Networking will be an ideal reference for practitioners and researchers working in the areas of communication networking and pervasive computing and networking. It also serves as an excellent textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, and information engineering and science.

Pervasive Computing: A Networking Perspective and Future Directions

Author : Deepshikha Bhargava
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811334625
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Pervasive Computing: A Networking Perspective and Future Directions by : Deepshikha Bhargava

Download or read book Pervasive Computing: A Networking Perspective and Future Directions written by Deepshikha Bhargava and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an accessible guide to ubiquitous computing, with an emphasis on pervasive networking. It addresses various technical obstacles, such as connectivity, levels of service, performance, reliability and fairness. The focus is on describing currently available off-the-shelf technologies, novel algorithms and techniques in areas such as: underwater sensor networks, ant colony based routing, heterogeneous networks, agent based distributed networks, cognitive radio networks, real-time WSN applications, machine translation, intelligent computing and ontology based bit masking. By introducing the core topics and exploring assistive pervasive systems that draw on pervasive networking, the book provides readers with a robust foundation of knowledge on this growing field of research. Written in a straightforward style, the book is also accessible to a broad audience of researchers and designers who are interested in exploring pervasive computing further.

Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking

Author : Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387234667
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking by : Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Download or read book Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking written by Boleslaw K. Szymanski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pervasive Computing and Networking aim at providing ubiquitous, ever-present, adaptable, smart, enveloping and immersive environments in which computing components and humans can interact regardless of the location. The combination of an abundance of computational power of the processors and the communication bandwidth provided by the wireless and mobile networking everywhere and all the time makes such environments within the reach of current technology. Yet, to realize the full potential of such environments, many technical and economical challenges needs to be overcome. These challenges and the perspective on the seminal directions of the research in this area were the subject of the Workshop for Pervasive Computing and Networking at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. This book presents chapters based on presentations made at the workshop by leaders in the field. The scope of Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking ranges from fundamental theory of pervasive computing and networking to crucial challenges and emerging applications. Such seminal topics as a scalable, self-organizing technology for sensor networks, the fundamental relationship between the achievable capacity and delay in mobile wireless networks, the role of self-optimization in sensor networks or similarities and differences between computer networks and their biological counterparts are the subject of the first group of chapters. The next group of chapters covers communication issues, such as cooperative communication in mobile, wireless and sensor networks, methods for maximizing aggregate throughput in 802.11 mesh networks with a physical carrier, and self-configuring location discovery systems for smart environments. The book closes with chapters focusing on sensor network emerging applications such as smart and safe buildings, a design for a distributed transmitter for reachback based on radar signals sensing and two-radio multi-channel clustering.

Pervasive Computing and Social Networking

Author : G. Ranganathan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811928401
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)

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Book Synopsis Pervasive Computing and Social Networking by : G. Ranganathan

Download or read book Pervasive Computing and Social Networking written by G. Ranganathan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book features original papers from International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Social Networking (ICPCSN 2022), organized by NSIT, Salem, India during 3 – 4 March 2022. It covers research works on conceptual, constructive, empirical, theoretical and practical implementations of pervasive computing and social networking methods for developing more novel ideas and innovations in the growing field of information and communication technologies.

Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing

Author : Frank Adelstein
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071782583
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)

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Book Synopsis Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing by : Frank Adelstein

Download or read book Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing written by Frank Adelstein and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative, general reference that has been sorely missing in the field of mobile computing This book teaches all the main topics via the hottest applications in a rapidlygrowing field. "Big picture" explanations of ad hoc networks and service discovery Exercises, projects, and solutions to illustrate core concepts Extensive wireless security methodologies

Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing

Author : Debashis Saha
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461511437
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Book Synopsis Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing by : Debashis Saha

Download or read book Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing written by Debashis Saha and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies & Systems is a comprehensive guide to tomorrow's world of ubiquitous computing where users can access and manipulate information from everywhere at all times. The emphasis is on networking, systems and standards rather than detailed physical implementation. Addressed are many technical obstacles, such as, connectivity, levels of service, performance, and reliability and fairness. The authors also describe the existing enabling off-the-shelf technologies and its underlying infrastructure known as pervasive networking (PervNet). PervNet ties different sets of smart nodes together enabling them to communicate with each other to provide pervasive computing services to users. Throughout the book, important issues related to scalability, transparency, security, energy management, QoS provisioning, fault tolerance, and disconnected operations are discussed. This work provides a research and development perspective to the field of PervNet and will serve as an essential reference for network designers, operators and developers.

Pervasive Computing

Author : Ciprian Dobre
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128037024
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Pervasive Computing written by Ciprian Dobre and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pervasive Computing: Next Generation Platforms for Intelligent Data Collection presents current advances and state-of-the-art work on methods, techniques, and algorithms designed to support pervasive collection of data under ubiquitous networks of devices able to intelligently collaborate towards common goals. Using numerous illustrative examples and following both theoretical and practical results the authors discuss: a coherent and realistic image of today’s architectures, techniques, protocols, components, orchestration, choreography, and developments related to pervasive computing components for intelligently collecting data, resource, and data management issues; the importance of data security and privacy in the era of big data; the benefits of pervasive computing and the development process for scientific and commercial applications and platforms to support them in this field. Pervasive computing has developed technology that allows sensing, computing, and wireless communication to be embedded in everyday objects, from cell phones to running shoes, enabling a range of context-aware applications. Pervasive computing is supported by technology able to acquire and make use of the ubiquitous data sensed or produced by many sensors blended into our environment, designed to make available a wide range of new context-aware applications and systems. While such applications and systems are useful, the time has come to develop the next generation of pervasive computing systems. Future systems will be data oriented and need to support quality data, in terms of accuracy, latency and availability. Pervasive Computing is intended as a platform for the dissemination of research efforts and presentation of advances in the pervasive computing area, and constitutes a flagship driver towards presenting and supporting advanced research in this area. Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to EI-Compendex and SCOPUS Offers a coherent and realistic image of today’s architectures, techniques, protocols, components, orchestration, choreography, and development related to pervasive computing Explains the state-of-the-art technological solutions necessary for the development of next-generation pervasive data systems, including: components for intelligently collecting data, resource and data management issues, fault tolerance, data security, monitoring and controlling big data, and applications for pervasive context-aware processing Presents the benefits of pervasive computing, and the development process of scientific and commercial applications and platforms to support them in this field Provides numerous illustrative examples and follows both theoretical and practical results to serve as a platform for the dissemination of research advances in the pervasive computing area

Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing

Author : Leonard Barolli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030222632
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing by : Leonard Barolli

Download or read book Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing written by Leonard Barolli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the latest research findings, methods and techniques, as well as challenges and solutions related to Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (UPC). In this regard, it employs both theoretical and practical perspectives, and places special emphasis on innovative, mobile and internet services. With the proliferation of wireless technologies and electronic devices, there is a rapidly growing interest in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (UPC). UPC makes it possible to create a human-oriented computing environment in which computer chips are embedded in everyday objects and interact with the physical world. Through UPC, people can remain online even while underway, thus enjoying nearly permanent access to their preferred services. Though it has a great potential to revolutionize our lives, UPC also poses a number of new research challenges.

Ubiquitous Computing

Author : Stefan Poslad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119965268
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Ubiquitous Computing written by Stefan Poslad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the complex field of ubiquitous computing Ubiquitous Computing (also commonly referred to as Pervasive Computing) describes the ways in which current technological models, based upon three base designs: smart (mobile, wireless, service) devices, smart environments (of embedded system devices) and smart interaction (between devices), relate to and support a computing vision for a greater range of computer devices, used in a greater range of (human, ICT and physical) environments and activities. The author details the rich potential of ubiquitous computing, the challenges involved in making it a reality, and the prerequisite technological infrastructure. Additionally, the book discusses the application and convergence of several current major and future computing trends. Key Features: Provides an introduction to the complex field of ubiquitous computing Describes how current technology models based upon six different technology form factors which have varying degrees of mobility wireless connectivity and service volatility: tabs, pads, boards, dust, skins and clay, enable the vision of ubiquitous computing Describes and explores how the three core designs (smart devices, environments and interaction) based upon current technology models can be applied to, and can evolve to, support a vision of ubiquitous computing and computing for the future Covers the principles of the following current technology models, including mobile wireless networks, service-oriented computing, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, context-awareness, autonomous systems, micro-electromechanical systems, sensors, embedded controllers and robots Covers a range of interactions, between two or more UbiCom devices, between devices and people (HCI), between devices and the physical world. Includes an accompanying website with PowerPoint slides, problems and solutions, exercises, bibliography and further reading Graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering and telecommunications courses will find this a fascinating and useful introduction to the subject. It will also be of interest to ICT professionals, software and network developers and others interested in future trends and models of computing and interaction over the next decades.

Pervasive Computing

Author : Aboul Ella Hassanien
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848826001
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Pervasive Computing written by Aboul Ella Hassanien and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pervasive computing (also referred to as ubiquitous computing or ambient intelligence) aims to create environments where computers are invisibly and seamlessly integrated and connected into our everyday environment. Pervasive computing and intelligent multimedia technologies are becoming increasingly important, although many potential applications have not yet been fully realized. These key technologies are creating a multimedia revolution that will have significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, and governmental domains. This useful volume provides up-to-date and state-of-the-art coverage of the diverse topics related to pervasive computing and intelligent multimedia technologies. The use of different computational intelligence-based approaches to various problems in pervasive computing are examined, including video streaming, intelligent behavior modeling and control for mobile manipulators, tele-gaming, indexing video summaries for quick video browsing, web service processes, virtual environments, ambient intelligence, and prevention and detection of attacks to ubiquitous databases. Topics and features: Includes a comprehensive overview, providing a thorough literature review and an outline of the important research challenges Discusses pervasive computing approaches in the context of intelligent multimedia Examines virtual reality technology, mobile virtual environments, and the potential use of intelligent multimedia and ubiquitous computing in the hotels of the future Describes various approaches in ambient intelligence for home health care for the elderly and those suffering from Alzheimer's disease, for volcano monitoring, and for preventing attacks to ubiquitous databases Investigates issues in web services and situation awareness in pervasive computing environments Explores wireless network applications, such as mobile agents and e-commerce This textbook/reference is an invaluable resource for researchers, postgraduate and senior undergraduate students, and practitioners involved in pervasive computing, intelligent multimedia, and computational intelligence.

Pervasive Computing

Author : Hans W. Gellersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540260080
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Pervasive Computing written by Hans W. Gellersen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing, PERVASIVE 2005, held in Munich, Germany in May 2005. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on location techniques, activity and context, location and privacy, handheld devices, sensor systems, and user interaction.

Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing

Author : Yang Xiao
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000218937
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing by : Yang Xiao

Download or read book Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing written by Yang Xiao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses securing design patterns for distributed systems. The next section focuses on security in mobile computing and wireless networks. After a section on grid computing security, the book presents an overview of security solutions for pervasive healthcare systems and surveys wireless sensor network security.

Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing

Author : Leonard Barolli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319935542
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing by : Leonard Barolli

Download or read book Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing written by Leonard Barolli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the latest research findings, methods and development techniques related to Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (UPC) as well as challenges and solutions from both theoretical and practical perspectives with an emphasis on innovative, mobile and internet services. With the proliferation of wireless technologies and electronic devices, there is a rapidly growing interest in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (UPC). UPC makes it possible to create a human-oriented computing environment where computer chips are embedded in everyday objects and interact with physical world. It also allows users to be online even while moving around, providing them with almost permanent access to their preferred services. Along with a great potential to revolutionize our lives, UPC also poses new research challenges.

Pervasive Computing Handbook

Author : Uwe Hansmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662043181
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Pervasive Computing Handbook written by Uwe Hansmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide for the world of Pervasive Computing. It describes a new class of computing devices which are becoming omnipresent in every day life. They make information access and processing easily available for everyone from anywhere at any time. Mobility, wireless connectivity, di- versity, and ease-of-use are the magic keywords of Pervasive Computing. The book covers these front-end devices as well as their operating systems and the back-end infrastructure which integrate these pervasive components into a seamless IT world. A strong emphasis is placed on the underlying technologies and standards applied when building up pervasive solutions. These fundamental topics include commonly used terms such as XML, WAP, UMTS, GPRS, Bluetooth, Jini, transcoding, and cryptography, to mention just a few. Besides a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of the Pervasive Computing technology itself, this book gives an overview of today's real-life applications and accompanying service offerings. M-Commerce, e-Business, networked home, travel, and finance are exciting examples of applied Pervasive Computing.

Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking

Author : Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780387502281
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking by : Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Download or read book Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking written by Boleslaw K. Szymanski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pervasive Computing and Networking aim at providing ubiquitous, ever-present, adaptable, smart, enveloping and immersive environments in which computing components and humans can interact regardless of the location. The combination of an abundance of computational power of the processors and the communication bandwidth provided by the wireless and mobile networking everywhere and all the time makes such environments within the reach of current technology. Yet, to realize the full potential of such environments, many technical and economical challenges needs to be overcome. These challenges and the perspective on the seminal directions of the research in this area were the subject of the Workshop for Pervasive Computing and Networking at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. This book presents chapters based on presentations made at the workshop by leaders in the field. The scope of Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking ranges from fundamental theory of pervasive computing and networking to crucial challenges and emerging applications. Such seminal topics as a scalable, self-organizing technology for sensor networks, the fundamental relationship between the achievable capacity and delay in mobile wireless networks, the role of self-optimization in sensor networks or similarities and differences between computer networks and their biological counterparts are the subject of the first group of chapters. The next group of chapters covers communication issues, such as cooperative communication in mobile, wireless and sensor networks, methods for maximizing aggregate throughput in 802.11 mesh networks with a physical carrier, and self-configuring location discovery systems for smart environments. The book closes with chapters focusing on sensor network emerging applications such as smart and safe buildings, a design for a distributed transmitter for reachback based on radar signals sensing and two-radio multi-channel clustering.

Designing Solutions-Based Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: New Issues and Trends

Author : Neto, Francisco Milton Mendes
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615208445
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Designing Solutions-Based Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: New Issues and Trends written by Neto, Francisco Milton Mendes and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a general overview about research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing and its applications, discussing the recent progress in this area and pointing out to scholars what they should do (best practices) and should not do (bad practices)"--Provided by publisher.

Pervasive Social Computing

Author : Muhammad Ashad Kabir
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319299514
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Pervasive Social Computing written by Muhammad Ashad Kabir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a review of traditional context-aware computing research, identifies its limitations in developing social context-aware pervasive systems, and introduces a new technology framework to address these limitations. Thus, this book provides a good reference for developments in context-aware computing and pervasive social computing. It examines the emerging area of pervasive social computing, which is a novel collective paradigm derived from pervasive computing, social media, social networking, social signal processing and multimodal human-computer interaction. This book offers a novel approach to model, represent, reason about and manage different types of social context. It shows how users’ social context information can be acquired from different online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Calendar. It further presents the use of social context information in developing innovative smart mobile applications to assist users in their daily life. The mix of both theoretical and applied research results makes this book attractive to a variety of readers from both academia and industry. This book provides a new platform for implementing different types of socially-aware mobile applications. The platform hides the complexity of managing social context, and thus provides essential support to application developers for the development of socially-aware applications. The book contains detailed descriptions of how the underlying platform has been implemented using available technologies such as ontology and rule engines, and how this platform can be used to develop socially-aware mobile applications using two exemplar applications. The book also presents evaluations of the proposed platform and applications using real-world data from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Therefore, this book is a syndication of scientific research with practical industrial applications, making it useful to researchers as well as to software engineers.