This book takes on pervasive computing, introducing SmartShadow, which emulates shadows in the physical world by creating an always-available virtual personal space. Presents models, methods and software infrastructure and a sample smart car application.

SmartShadow: Models and Methods for Pervasive Computing offers a new perspective on pervasive computing with SmartShadow, which is designed to model a user as a personality shadow and to model pervasive computing environments as user-centric dynamic virtual personal spaces. Just like human beings' shadows in the physical world, it follows people wherever they go, providing them with pervasive services. The model, methods, and software infrastructure for SmartShadow are presented and an application for smart cars is also introduced.

The book can serve as a valuable reference work for researchers and graduate students in the field of pervasive/ubiquitous computing.

Zhaohui Wu is a Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Gang Pan is a Professor at the same institute.

Brings a new perspective of pervasive computing Presents the model, methods, and software infrastructure for SmartShadow Introduces an application in smart car

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Zhaohui Wu is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He has authored more than 200 refereed papers and 6 books. His research interests include pervasive computing, intelligent system, and semantic grid. And Gang Pan is a Professor at the same institute. He is mainly interested in pervasive computing, intelligent system, and computer vision.

Inhalt
SmartShadow Model.- Task Migration in SmartShadow.- Context-Awareness in SmartShadow.- File Modeling in SmartShadow.- ScudWare: Software Infrastructure for SmartShadow.- Smart Car Space: An Application.