Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, February 2012

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  Sajal K. Das, Marco Conti:
  Editorial. 1

Feature Articles

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  Marco Conti, Sajal K. Das, Chatschik Bisdikian, Mohan Kumar, Lionel M. Ni, Andrea Passarella, George Roussos, Gerhard Tröster, Gene Tsudik, Franco Zambonelli:
  Looking ahead in pervasive computing: Challenges and opportunities in the era of cyber-physical convergence. 2-21
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  Diane J. Cook, Sajal K. Das:
  Pervasive computing at scale: Transforming the state of the art. 22-35

Review Article

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  Juan Ye, Simon Dobson, Susan McKeever:
  Situation identification techniques in pervasive computing: A review. 36-66

Papers on Fast Track Ubicomp

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  Jadwiga Indulska:
  Special section on human activity recognition. 67
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  Marc Bächlin, Gerhard Tröster:
  Swimming performance and technique evaluation with wearable acceleration sensors. 68-81
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  Eric C. Larson, Jon Froehlich, Tim Campbell, Conor Haggerty, Les E. Atlas, James Fogarty, Shwetak N. Patel:
  Disaggregated water sensing from a single, pressure-based sensor: An extended analysis of HydroSense using staged experiments. 82-102
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  Fahd Albinali, Matthew S. Goodwin, Stephen S. Intille:
  Detecting stereotypical motor movements in the classroom using accelerometry and pattern recognition algorithms. 103-114

Regular Papers

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  Liang Wang, Tao Gu, XianPing Tao, Jian Lu:
  A hierarchical approach to real-time activity recognition in body sensor networks. 115-130
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  Kurt Rothermel, Stephan Schnitzer, Ralph Lange, Frank Dürr, Tobias Farrell:
  Context-aware and quality-aware algorithms for efficient mobile object management. 131-146
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  Fanyu Kong, Jindong Tan:
  DietCam: Automatic dietary assessment with mobile camera phones. 147-163

Volume 8, Number 2, April 2012

Special section on Wide-Scale Vehicular Sensor Networks and Mobile Sensing

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  Paolo Bellavista, Mario Gerla, Hariharan Krishnan, Uichin Lee:
  Editorial. 165-166
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  Eun-Kyu Lee, Soon-Young Oh, Mario Gerla:
  RFID assisted vehicle positioning in VANETs. 167-179
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  Claudio E. Palazzi, Fabio Pezzoni, Pedro M. Ruiz:
  Delay-bounded data gathering in urban vehicular sensor networks. 180-193
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  Jedrzej Rybicki, Björn Scheuermann, Martin Mauve:
  Peer-to-peer data structures for cooperative traffic information systems. 194-209
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  Evangelia Kokolaki, Merkourios Karaliopoulos, Ioannis Stavrakakis:
  Opportunistically assisted parking service discovery: Now it helps, now it does not. 210-227

Regular Papers

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  Pramita Mitra, Christian Poellabauer:
  Efficient group communications in location aware mobile ad-hoc networks. 229-248
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  Sae Fujii, Akira Uchiyama, Takaaki Umedu, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Teruo Higashino:
  Trajectory estimation algorithm for mobile nodes using encounter information and geographical information. 249-270
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  Lun-Wu Yeh, Ming-Hsiu Hsu, Hong-Ying Huang, Yu-Chee Tseng:
  Design and implementation of a self-guided indoor robot based on a two-tier localization architecture. 271-281
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  Chi-Chung Lo, Lan-Yin Hsu, Yu-Chee Tseng:
  Adaptive radio maps for pattern-matching localization via inter-beacon co-calibration. 282-291
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  Kamol Kaemarungsi, Prashant Krishnamurthy:
  Analysis of WLAN's received signal strength indication for indoor location fingerprinting. 292-316

Volume 8, Number 3, June 2012

Special Section on the 2011 PerCom Information Quality and Quality of Service (IQ2S) Workshop, Chatschik Bisdikian, Archan Misra, Kai-Uwe Sattler (Guest Editors)

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  Jamie Payton, Christine Julien, Vasanth Rajamani, Gruia-Catalin Roman:
  Using snapshot query fidelity to adapt continuous query execution. 317-330
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  Supriyo Chakraborty, Zainul Charbiwala, Haksoo Choi, Kasturi Rangan Raghavan, Mani B. Srivastava:
  Balancing behavioral privacy and information utility in sensory data flows. 331-345
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  Sahin Cem Geyik, S. Yousaf Shah, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Sanmay Das, Petros Zerfos:
  Market mechanisms for resource allocation in pervasive sensor applications. 346-357

Review Articles

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  Sumana Srinivasan, Subhasri Duttagupta, Purushottam Kulkarni, Krithi Ramamritham:
  A survey of sensory data boundary estimation, covering and tracking techniques using collaborating sensors. 358-375
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  Michel Barbeau:
  Point-to-point voice over ad hoc networks: A survey. 376-387

Regular Papers

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  Widyawan, Gerald Pirkl, Daniele Munaretto, Carl Fischer, Chunlei An, Paul Lukowicz, Martin Klepal, Andreas Timm-Giel, Joerg Widmer, Dirk Pesch, Hans Gellersen:
  Virtual lifeline: Multimodal sensor data fusion for robust navigation in unknown environments. 388-401
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  Joshua Finnis, Nalin Saigal, Adriana Iamnitchi, Jay Ligatti:
  A location-based policy-specification language for mobile devices. 402-414
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  Mirco Rossi, Oliver Amft, Gerhard Tröster:
  Collaborative personal speaker identification: A generalized approach. 415-428
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  Paolo Medagliani, Jeremie Leguay, Gianluigi Ferrari, Vincent Gay, Mario Lopez-Ramos:
  Energy-efficient mobile target detection in Wireless Sensor Networks with random node deployment and partial coverage. 429-447
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  Alessandra De Paola, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, Marco Ortolani:
  Sensor₉k : A testbed for designing and experimenting with WSN-based ambient intelligence applications. 448-466
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  Matthias Füller, Willi Nüßer, Thomas Rustemeyer:
  Context driven process selection and integration of mobile and pervasive systems. 467-482

Volume 8, Number 4, August 2012

Editorial

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  Achilles Kameas, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  Special issue on "Ambient Ecologies". 483-484

Special Issue Articles

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  Elizabeth Papadopoulou, Sarah Gallacher, Nick K. Taylor, M. Howard Williams:
  A Personal Smart Space approach to realising Ambient Ecologies. 485-499
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  Christian Wagner, Christos Goumopoulos, Hani Hagras:
  Emerging and adaptive fuzzy logic based behaviours in activity sphere centred ambient ecologies. 500-521
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  Md. Jayedur Rashid, Mathias Broxvall, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  A middleware to integrate robots, simple devices and everyday objects into an ambient ecology. 522-541
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  Marcello Cirillo, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saffiotti:
  Human-aware planning for robots embedded in ambient ecologies. 542-561
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  Nikolaos Dipsis, Kostas Stathis:
  Ubiquitous Agents for Ambient Ecologies. 562-574
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  Francesco Tisato, Carla Simone, Diego Bernini, Marco P. Locatelli, Daniela Micucci:
  Grounding ecologies on multiple spaces. 575-596
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  Dipak Surie, Lars-Erik Janlert, Thomas Pederson, Dilip Roy:
  Egocentric interaction as a tool for designing ambient ecologies - The case of the easy ADL ecology. 597-613
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  Dario Bonino, Fulvio Corno:
  DoMAIns: Domain-based modeling for Ambient Intelligence. 614-628

Volume 8, Number 5, October 2012

Special Section on Pervasive Networks for Future Internet

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  Mainak Chatterjee, Andrea Passarella:
  Special Section on Pervasive Networks for Future Internet. 629-630
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  Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Pablo Serrano, Albert Banchs, Matthias Hollick:
  Balancing energy efficiency and throughput fairness in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. 631-645
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  Sara Alouf, Vincenzo Mancuso, Nicaise Choungmo Fofack:
  Analysis of power saving and its impact on web traffic in cellular networks with continuous connectivity. 646-661
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  Thorsten Biermann, Luca Scalia, Changsoon Choi, Holger Karl, Wolfgang Kellerer:
  CoMP clustering and backhaul limitations in cooperative cellular mobile access networks. 662-681
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  John Whitbeck, Yoann Lopez, Jeremie Leguay, Vania Conan, Marcelo Dias de Amorim:
  Push-and-track: Saving infrastructure bandwidth through opportunistic forwarding. 682-697
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  Kazem Jahanbakhsh, Valerie King, Gholamali C. Shoja:
  Predicting missing contacts in mobile social networks. 698-716

Regular Papers

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  Oscar D. Lara, Alfredo J. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, José D. Posada:
  Centinela: A human activity recognition system based on acceleration and vital sign data. 717-729
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  Debraj De, Shaojie Tang, Wen-Zhan Song, Diane J. Cook, Sajal K. Das:
  ActiSen: Activity-aware sensor network in smart environments. 730-750
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  Christos Anagnostopoulos, Odysseas Sekkas, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades:
  An adaptive epidemic information dissemination model for wireless sensor networks. 751-763
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  Thomas Toftkjær, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard:
  The impact of sensor errors and building structures on particle filter-based inertial positioning. 764-776
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  Feng Zhu, Sandra Carpenter, Ajinkya Kulkarni:
  Understanding identity exposure in pervasive computing environments. 777-794
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  Sagar A. Tamhane, Mohan Kumar:
  A token based distributed algorithm for supporting mutual exclusion in opportunistic networks. 795-809

Volume 8, Number 6, December 2012

Editorial

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  Franca Delmastro, Diane J. Cook, Marjorie Skubic, Paul Lukowicz:
  Special Issue on Pervasive Healthcare. 811-812

Technical issues involving wearable and environmental sensors

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  Burcu Cinaz, Christian Vogt, Bert Arnrich, Gerhard Tröster:
  Implementation and evaluation of wearable reaction time tests. 813-821
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  Cory Cornelius, David Kotz:
  Recognizing whether sensors are on the same body. 822-836
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  André Dias, Lukas Gorzelniak, Rudolf A. Jörres, Rainald Fischer, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Alexander Horsch:
  Assessing physical activity in the daily life of cystic fibrosis patients. 837-844
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  Belkacem Chikhaoui, Shengrui Wang, Hélène Pigot:
  ADR-SPLDA: Activity discovery and recognition by combining sequential patterns and latent Dirichlet allocation. 845-862

Real examples of Pervasive Healthcare systems and applications

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  Svetha Venkatesh, Stewart Greenhill, Dinh Q. Phung, Brett Adams, Thi V. Duong:
  Pervasive multimedia for autism intervention. 863-882
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  Stefano Abbate, Marco Avvenuti, Francesco Bonatesta, Guglielmo Cola, Paolo Corsini, Alessio Vecchio:
  A smartphone-based fall detection system. 883-899
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  Sonia M. Arteaga, Víctor M. González, Sri Kurniawan, Raquel A. Benavides:
  Mobile games and design requirements to increase teenagers' physical activity. 900-908