This textbook explores the current challenges in and future prospects of context-aware pervasive systems and applications. The phenomenal advances in broadband technology and ubiquitous access to the Internet have transformed Internet computing into the Internet of Things (IoT), which is now evolving toward the Internet of Everything. Modern scientific, engineering, and business applications are increasingly dependent on machine-to-machine communication, wherein there is less human intervention. In turn, this creates a need for context-aware pervasive systems and applications in which RFID, sensors, and smartphones play a key role. The book provides an essential overview of context, context management, and how to perform context management in various use cases. In addition, it addresses context-aware computing and personalization, various architectures for context-aware systems, and security issues. The content is explained using straightforward language and easy-to-follow examples, case studies, technical descriptions, procedures, algorithms, and protocols for context-aware systems.

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Dr. Parikshit N. Mahalle obtained his BE degree in CSE from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, India, and his ME degree (in Computer Engineering) from Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Pune, India. He completed his PhD at Aalborg University, Denmark. Currently, he is working as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Engineering at STES Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune, India. He has over 18 years of teaching and research experience. He is a senior member of the IEEE, member of the ACM, and life member of the CSI and ISTE. He serves as a reviewer, Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Review Board for various journals. Dr. Mahalle has 140+ research articles and eight books to his credit, and has edited three books by Springer and CRC Press. He received the "Best Faculty Award" from STES and Cognizant Technologies Solutions. Dr. Prashant S. Dhotre is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Technology, India. He obtained his BE degree in CSE from SRTMU, Nanded, and his ME degree in IT from the SPPU, Pune. He subsequently completed his PhD degree at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has over 15 years of teaching and research experience, and has spearheaded research projects on "privacy and security" funded by the SPPU, Pune. He has more than 30 articles and three books to his credit, and received the "Best Paper" award in an ICICC - 2017 Springer Series. He also serves as a reviewer for the various journals. Dr. Dhotre is currently serving as SPOC for Foreign Collaboration between Indian Institutes (Sinhgad, Dr. DY Patil Pimpri, MIT ADT, etc.) and AAU, CPH, Denmark [Outcome: 70+ Indian students completed internships and two candidates completed their postdocs].