Designing next generation middleware for context-aware ubiquitous and pervasive computing

Abstract

Recently, both academic and industrial organisations have worked on advanced computing systems. Even though the following collection of ubiquitous and pervasive initiatives is not exhaustive, it presents the most interesting and promising state-of-the-art devices, applications, and services. Many academic organisations all over the world have taken over various relevant projects during the last decade, like the Aura project 1 (Garlan et al 2002) of Carnegie Mellon University, which claims to introduce the concept of a 'personal information aura'-an invisible halo of computing and information services that persist regardless of location-that spans wearable, handheld, desktop and infrastructure computers. The MIT project Oxygen 2 (MIT 2003), enables pervasive, human