Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing

This book is the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2006, held in Wuhan, China. The book presents 117 revised full papers together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 382 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart objects and embedded systems; smart spaces, environments, and platforms; ad-hoc and intelligent networks; sensor networks, and more.

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Keynote Speech.- Transparent Computing: A New Paradigm for Pervasive Computing.- Track 1: Smart Objects and Embedded Systems.- Drag and Drop by Laser Pointer: Seamless Interaction with Multiple Large Displays.- A Flexible Display by Integrating a Wall-Size Display and Steerable Projectors.- Design and Implementation of a Smart Tag System for IT-Based Port Logistics.- A Smart Schoolbag System for Reminding Pupils of the Forgotten Items.- Passive Radio Frequency Exteroception in Robot Assisted Shopping for the Blind.- A Smart Identification Card System Using Facial Biometric: From Architecture to Application.- Architectures and Functions of the TMO Kernels for Ubiquitous and Embedded Real-Time Distributed Computing.- An Embedded System Design for Ubiquitous Speech Interactive Applications Based on a Cost Effective SPCE061A Micro Controller.- Prototyping Object-Based Ubiquitous Multimedia Contents Storage for Mobile Devices.- CATA: A Garbage Collection Scheme for Flash Memory File Systems.- Track 2: Smart Spaces/Environments/Platforms.- A Robust Location Tracking Using Ubiquitous RFID Wireless Network.- Hybrid Predictors for Next Location Prediction.- Psychology-Aware Video-Enabled Workplace.- Distributed Embedded Intelligence Room with Multi-agent Cooperative Learning.- Intelligent Pervasive Middleware Based on Biometrics.- An Arrival Time Anticipation Approach for Real-Time Tracking of Moving Object in Mobile Networks.- Behavior Analysis with Combined RFID and Video Information.- Well-Being Store: A New Channel in U-Commerce for Insurance Industry.- Real-Time License Plate Detection Under Various Conditions.- RUIS: Development of Regional Ubiquitous Information System and Its Applications: Towards a Universal Ubiquitous Information Society.- Adaptive Service Delivery for Mobile Users in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.- An Effective Message Flooding Method for Vehicle Safety Communication.- RDF: Stores - A Lightweight Approach on Managing Shared Knowledge.- Vision Based Automatic Surveillance Towards a Smart Application.- Handling Heterogeneous Device Interaction in Smart Spaces.- Track 3: Ad Hoc and Intelligent Networks.- A New Model to Optimize the Cost Efficiency of Broadcast in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Joint Power Control and Channel Assignment Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Fast IPv6 Addressing Technique for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Distributed Fairness Support Scheduling Algorithm in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- QoS Model for Improving End-to-End Service in 802.11e-Based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Transmission Range Designation Broadcasting Methods for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Bandwidth-Aware Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Adaptive Power-Aware Clustering and Multicasting Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Backtracking Based Handoff Rerouting Algorithm for WiMAX Mesh Mode.- A Self-tuning Reliable Dynamic Scheme for Multicast Flow Control.- Intelligent Wireless Home Network Based on Cooperative DS-UWB System.- A New QoS Multicast Routing Model and Its Immune Optimization Algorithm.- A Novel Collaborative Tier Scheme for Multihop Inter-Vehicle Communication Networks.- Performance Computation Model for IEEE 802.11e EDCF Wireless LANs.- Opportunistic Packet Scheduling over IEEE 802.11 WLAN.- Track 4: Sensor Networks.- A Scalable, Efficient and Reliable Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.- ACO Based QoS Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Cluster Number Variability Problem in LEACH.- A Multipath Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Improved Dynamic Power Management in Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Fast Traffic Planning Algorithm in Lifetime Optimization of Sensor Networks.- An Adaptive Coverage Algorithm for Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Networks.- Adaptive Sink Mobility Management Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Congestion Control Technique for the Near-Sink Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Information-Driven Sensor Selection Algorithm for Kalman Filtering in Sensor Networks.- TwinsNet: A Cooperative MIMO Mobile Sensor Network.- Scalable and Low-Cost Acoustic Source Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks.- REDRP: Reactive Energy Decisive Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Systolic Query Processing for Aggregation in Sensor Networks.- Adapted Listening in Wireless Sensor Network MAC Protocol.- Relay Shift Based Self-deployment for Mobility Limited Sensor Networks.- Energy-Efficient Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Proposal of Visualization of Reasoning Processes in Sensor Network Environment.- Energy-Efficient, Traffic-Adaptive, Fast Collision Resolution MAC for WSNs.- Bidirectional Data Aggregation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Track 5: Pervasive Communications and Mobile Systems.- A Base Station-Coordinated Contention Resolution for IEEE 802.16 PMP Networks.- A Promise Theory Approach to Collaborative Power Reduction in a Pervasive Computing Environment.- CityVoyager: An Outdoor Recommendation System Based on User Location History.- Energy Saving of Mobile Devices Based on Component Migration and Replication in Pervasive Computing.- Mobile Agent Enabled Application Mobility for Pervasive Computing.- Towards Summarized Representation of Time Series Data in Pervasive Computing Systems.- Adaptive Bridging with Portable Interceptor for Efficient Integration of Reflective Middleware.- A Simulation Study Comparing the Performance of Two RFID Protocols.- FreeSpeech: A Novel Wireless Approach for Conference Projecting and Cooperating.- Performance Analysis of Unified Data Broadcast Model for Multi-channel Wireless Databases.- Track 6: Context-Aware Computing and Systems.- Real-Time Human Tracker Based Location and Motion Recognition for the Ubiquitous Smart Home.- Automatic Updating of a Book Storage Database in a Ubiquitous Library Information System.- Context-Aware Dynamic Personalised Service Re-composition in a Pervasive Service Environment.- A Context-Aware Multi-agent Service System for Assistive Home Applications.- Profile Processing and Evolution for Smart Environments.- A Context-Aware Smart Home Service System Based on uWDL.- Toward Context-Awareness: A Workflow Embedded Middleware.- Service Rendering Middleware (SRM) Based on the Intelligent LOD Algorithm.- Jini-Based Ubiquitous Computing Middleware Supporting Event and Context Management Services.- Building a Frame-Based Interaction and Learning Model for U-Learning.- Track 7: Security, Safety and Privacy.- A Novel Steganographic Technique Based on Image Morphing.- A Group-Oriented (t, n) Threshold Signature Scheme Against Replay Attacks.- Incorporating Data Mining Tools into a New Hybrid-IDS to Detect Known and Unknown Attacks.- A Further Approach on Hypercube-Based Pairwise Key Establishment in Sensor Networks.- Key Predistribution in Sensor Networks.- A Strong Key Pre-distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Cooperative Public Key Authentication Protocol in Wireless Sensor Network.- Restricted Universal Designated Verifier Signature.- Research on Pairwise Key Establishment Model and Algorithm for Sensor Networks.- A DRBAC Model Based on Context for Smart and Secure Services in Intelligent Ubiquitous Home.- Investigating Authentication Mechanisms for Wireless Mobile Network.- M2AP: A Minimalist Mutual-Authentication Protocol for Low-Cost RFID Tags.- Context-Enhanced Authentication for Infrastructureless Network Environments.- Location Privacy in Mobile Computing Environments.…