Handbook of Research on Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time Enterprises

Mhlh„user, Max · Gurevych, Iryna

Jan 2008 · IGI Global

About this ebook

After the mainframe and personal computer eras, the third major era in computer science, ubiquitous computing, describes the state of technology in which networked computers would surround every user.

The Handbook of Research on Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time Enterprises combines the fundamental methods, algorithms, and concepts of pervasive computing with current innovations and solutions to emerging challenges. With more than 25 authoritative contributions by over 50 of the world's leading experts this groundbreaking resource systemically covers such salient topics as network and application scalability, wireless network connectivity, adaptability and "context-aware" computing, information technology security and liability, and human computer interaction.

About the author

Max Mhlh„user is head of the Telecooperation Division at Technische Universit„t Darmstadt, Computer Science Dept. He has about 25 years of experience in research and teaching in areas related to Ubiquitous Computing (UC) at the Universities of Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Linz, Darmstadt, Montr‚al, Sophia Antipolis, and San Diego (UCSD). In 1993, he founded the TeCO institute (www.teco.edu) in Karlsruhe, Germany that became one of the pace-makers for UC research in Europe. SAP Research is one of his major industrial partners. Max regularly publishes in UC conferences and journals and is an author of chapters about Ubiquitous Computing in computer science textbooks, readers, etc., with a total of more than 200 publications. He is a reviewer for UC conferences, member of editorial boards in journals, and guest editor in journals like Pervasive Computing, ACM Multimedia, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, etc.

Iryna Gurevych is head of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Group at the Technische Universit„t Darmstadt. She has a PhD in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and worked in the Mobile Assistance Systems and Natural Language Processing Groups in basic and applied research at European Media Lab in Heidelberg, Germany. Her expertise is in unstructured information management, knowledge-based methods, and human-computer interaction. Iryna is Principal Investigator in several research projects funded by the German Research Foundation in the areas of semantic computing, ontology applications and language based human-computer interaction. She publishes and is a reviewer for international conferences about NLP, dialogue systems and computational semantics. [Editor]