CyberDesk: automated integration of desktop and network services
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Coding, Analysis, Interpretation, and Recognition of Facial Expressions
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
CyberDesk: a framework for providing self-integrating context-aware services
IUI '98 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
World Wide Web Journal - Special issue on XML: principles, tools, and techniques
An architecture for a secure service discovery service
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
The design and implementation of an intentional naming system
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
User-centered interdisciplinary design of wearable computers
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review - Special issue dedicated to Mark Weiser
Challenges: an application model for pervasive computing
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Abstractions for mobile computations
Secure Internet programming
Jini Specification
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice
The Java Language Specification
The Java Language Specification
A system architecture for pervasive computing
EW 9 Proceedings of the 9th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: beyond the PC: new challenges for the operating system
Toward Ubiquitous Environments for Mobile Users
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Internet Computing
FoSSaCS '98 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structure
Modeling, Tracking and Interactive Animation of Faces and Heads Using Input from Video
CA '96 Proceedings of the Computer Animation
WebOS: Operating System Services for Wide Area Applications
HPDC '98 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Systems Directions for Pervasive Computing
HOTOS '01 Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
IBM Systems Journal
The CRISIS wide area security architecture
SSYM'98 Proceedings of the 7th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 7
IEEE Communications Magazine
An overview of wireless broadband communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
Wireless bandwidth in the making
IEEE Communications Magazine
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With the explosive expansion of the Internet as the global information infrastructure, coupled with rapid advances in wireless technologies, a new vision for computing is emerging. A seamless, anywhere, anytime, untethered, pervasive computing paradigm is touted as the next major paradigm shift in the way we compute and communicate. In order to realize this vision, the complexity of this environment must be masked from its consumers (users) and producers alike (service providers). We believe that a middleware infrastructure that provides appropriate high-level abstractions for both users and service-providers is needed. Such a middleware infrastructure must allow powerful services to be easily deployed and permit users to interact with such services in a personalized, yet effortless manner. In this position paper, we introduce the notion of a "smart service" - services with which users can dynamically interact in an automated and personalized manner, and can be composed to form "smart environments." Smart environments present an integrated view of services to the user to enable much higher-level, domain-specific interactions and to support user customization. We present a system architecture for building smart services and smart environments, and the middleware research challenges that must be addressed to realize this architecture and the core abstractions.