C. Metzger, A. Ilic, P. Bourquin, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch
{"title":"Distance-sensitive High Frequency RFID Systems","authors":"C. Metzger, A. Ilic, P. Bourquin, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783705","url":null,"abstract":"Location information about a high frequency RFID tag is currently limited to the location information associated with the position of the RFID reader. The distance of a tag from the reader remains unknown. However, more precise location information of objects provided at low cost is critical to create smart spaces. In this paper, we present a distance-sensitive RFID system that accurately resolves a tag's distance from the reader. In contrast to other distance sensing systems that operate on the emission of electromagnetic waves, high frequency RFID systems make use of magnetic coupling for data transmission. The paper details the system design and implementation with discrete components, presents the distance measurement procedure, and evaluates the accuracy of the measurements.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128746194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Website Classification Engine Research and Implementation","authors":"Yan Pan, Guibin Wu, Yong Tang, Lili Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783654","url":null,"abstract":"Internet provides us with explosive information and involves massive important and useful knowledge within the abundant Web resources. Search engines can be very convenient to help users access the information they need. Through the Website classification, it can be more efficient to retrieve information. Through Web page automatic categorization engine design and implementation, this paper improves Web page classification and retrieval efficiency to help users access information more efficiently.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114646247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient Computation of Iceberg Quotient Cube by Bounding","authors":"Xinbao Wang, Yongqing Zheng, Chen Luo, Fang Teng","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783624","url":null,"abstract":"Quotient cube is a summary structure for a data cube that preserves its semantics. The iceberg cubing problem is to compute the multidimensional group-by partitions that satisfy given aggregation constraints. As we know, there has been no algorithm that computes iceberg quotient cube for nonantimonotone aggregate functions. In this paper, we propose a new structure hyper-star-tree and an efficient algorithm, called IQ-Cubing, for iceberg quotient cubing with nonantimonotone aggregation constraints. We also employ the closedness measure to do pruning efficiently and utilize the closed mask to help the formation of equivalence classes. We conduct an investigation into the performance of our ideas and techniques.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125831429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zero-Configuration of Pervasive Healthcare Sensor Networks","authors":"S. Wagner","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783620","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive healthcare systems are trying to address the expected demand for caretaking and out-of-hospital monitoring. These systems allow for automatic and distributed monitoring of patients, but many of them are time consuming with regards to installation and maintenance configuration of the sensor network and communication platform. To avoid burdening caretaking staff and relatives with installing and configuring system software and hardware, a research project at the Engineering College of Aarhus, pervasive healthcare lab, has been trying to achieve a zero-configuration solution, removing most handling while at the users home. Achieving a true zero-configuration strategy has proven hard to implement especially with regards to the coupling of the individual wireless sensors to a specific patient. This paper discusses the experiences gained so far with developing a prototype solution, including how zero-configuration was originally conceived, which problems were identified, and which solutions are being tested.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125956457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xianzhi Huang, Haiyang Wang, Li-zhen Cui, Wenjing Cui
{"title":"A Service-Oriented Business Rule-Based Application Platform in Pervasive Computing Environments","authors":"Xianzhi Huang, Haiyang Wang, Li-zhen Cui, Wenjing Cui","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783739","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive computing has created both new business opportunities and new challenges for the modern enterprises. An innovated business application integration pattern for collaborated enterprises with the traits of the variability and equality was presented, in which the key challenge is that there is not the need of a headquarters to govern the whole business across the enterprises with the common business processes. According to the requirements derived from this innovated pattern, a service-oriented business rule-based application platform in pervasive computing environments was proposed and some key challenging issues were researched in this paper. The architecture design of the application platform exploits service-oriented architecture and business rules-based approach to enhance the flexibility, scalability and dynamic adaptability of the business application. Business rule-based approach enables the application agilely adapt to the changeable market in both the level of service and service collaboration with the separated deployable rules. The implementation experience of a prototype has verified the feasibility of the proposed architecture in the pervasive computing environments.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126159181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative Request Processing in mobile Service Communities","authors":"H. Pfeffer, C. Jacob, A. Kress, S. Steglich","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783626","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing user mobility and more and more powerful mobile devices changed the way services are used today, e.g., by taking the user's location into account. Indeed, service interaction models are also influenced by this development making the ad hoc composition of complementary functionalities possible. Here, particular challenges remain in the field of composing services that are hosted on different mobile or fixed devices to commonly fulfill a task of a user. In this paper, we therefore propose a semantically enhanced middleware approach for mobile P2P environments. Our approach especially focuses on the flexible management of service compositions by means of a distributed state management and event handling to facilitate a collaborative request processing.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122482158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Greenhalgh, K. Glover, J. Humble, J. Robinson, S. Wilson, J. Frey, K. Page, D. De Roure
{"title":"Combining System Introspection with User-Provided Description to Support Configuration and Understanding of Pervasive systems","authors":"C. Greenhalgh, K. Glover, J. Humble, J. Robinson, S. Wilson, J. Frey, K. Page, D. De Roure","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783695","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive computing systems such as smart spaces typically combine multiple embedded and/or mobile sensing, computing and interaction devices. A variety of distributed computing approaches are used to integrate these devices to support coordinated applications. This paper describes how simple user descriptions of (primarily) physical aspects of such a system can be combined with information from system introspection to make the system and its log recordings more understandable to potential users, as well as supporting easier configuration and monitoring, and allowing the expression of certain kinds of system behaviour that are otherwise hard to achieve.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122962470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Topological Structure Construction Approach and its Application in Off-line Handwritten Digit Recognition","authors":"Huichuan Duan, Jinwei Yang, Xiyu Liu, Hong Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783609","url":null,"abstract":"In searching for an adequate feature extraction approach for pen-like smart scanners to scan and recognize handwritten digits, the authors propose a topological structure construction approach to help extracting features served for recognition. Unlike most of the feature extraction approaches that simply focus on the pixels constituting the visual images of digits, the proposed approach tries in a different direction, that is, adding some lines of pixels to the images and counting the topological structures in the newly formed images. Experimental results show that for samples collected from students' assignments, 9 features is enough for a 93.5% recognition rate, with the help of a suitable classification tree.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129743009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Framework for QoS-aware Web Service Composition in Pervasive Computing Environments","authors":"Zhi-Yong Chen, Qing Yao","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783671","url":null,"abstract":"By adopting standard-based protocols, service components from different providers can be conveniently integrated into a composite service regardless of their locations, platforms and/or hardware speeds. This paper presents a framework to facilitate dynamic service composition, selection and adaptation of QoS-aware Web services towards pervasive computing. Considering both functional and QoS characteristics of Web services, this framework intends to generate the optimal travel process solutions for tourists in spite of their locations. For many Web services providing a similar functionality, our study primarily focus on the issue about services selection with multi-constraints. In this paper, we propose a heuristic algorithm on the multi-choice, multi-dimension 0-1 knapsack problem (MMKP) using the rule-library. Finally we test the efficiency of the algorithm and the results prove it is predominant compared with other algorithms.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124193153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive Task Allocation for P2P-Based e-Services Composition","authors":"Jun Shen, Shuai Yuan","doi":"10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPCA.2008.4783600","url":null,"abstract":"To effectively manage the task allocation, especially when handling with numerous different peers' qualities, is one of the greatest challenges to be faced in order to guarantee the success of P2P-based e-services composition. In this context, various QoS descriptive frameworks and Web services technologies (such as WSDL and BPEL) are being considered as the most affordable solutions to promote the performance of decentralized e-services, through applying strategies like QoS ontologies and related optimization algorithms globally or locally. Nonetheless, most P2P-based service selection and composition approaches applied nowadays lack dynamism and autonomy. In this paper, we first propose an extension of non-functional properties in WSMO, so that to globally facilitate dynamism and autonomous coordination in service compositions. Furthermore, taking into account a model driven approach, we design a planning algorithm to intelligently assign composition tasks to the most appropriate peers for different steps in a whole process. This algorithm is implemented in our prototype UOW-SWS via considering a typical LoanApproval scenario.","PeriodicalId":244239,"journal":{"name":"2008 Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121170487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}