The market for personal computing devices is rapidly expanding from PC, to mobile, home entertainment systems, and even the automotive industry. When developing software targeting such ubiquitous devices, the balance between development costs and market coverage has turned out to be a challenging issue. With the rise of Web technology and the Internet of things, ubiquitous applications have become a reality. Nonetheless, the diversity of presentation and interaction modalities still drastically limit the number of targetable devices and the accessibility toward end users. This paper presents webinos, a multidevice application middleware platform founded on the Future Internet infrastructure. Hereto, the platform's architectural modifiability considerations are described and evaluated as a generic enabler for supporting applications, which are executed in ubiquitous computing environments.
This paper focuses on the application of social networking technologies -in particular Web 2.0 -in fulfilling the needs for senior citizens' education, information provision and communication. Unibook is a flexible platform which has been recently designed and implemented to provide synchronous and asynchronous learning in a university environment, which has been customized in its "SE" version to cover the aforementioned needs. Unibook SE provides online communication, including attendance of multimedia courses from different terminals (PCs, mobile phones, PDAs) with advanced features, to facilitate senior users. In this paper, the technical characteristics of Unibook SE are presented. Furthermore, the technological and operational innovations are analyzed, as well as potential extensions and improvements.
Nowadays, taking into consideration the prevailing situation of price fluctuations, the rapid population increase and the technology’s evolution, the energy efficiency unexploited potential is considered to be extremely significant as a means of partly tackling energy dependence and climate change. This potential can be utilised through the provision of energy services, with the support of intelligent information systems. In particular, up to date several researchers, have proposed energy management tools and methodologies that provide specialized energy management services. However, the majority of the known energy tools are limited to a single equipment type, fuel, or locality. The present paper introduces an intelligent information decision support system, addressed to Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) for assessing an operational unit’s (building or industrial sector) energy behaviour and suggesting the appropriate interventions. Its overall scope is to facilitate the ESCO in reaching a decision quickly and accurately, by simulating the whole unit’s energy behaviour.
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