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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4412)
Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)
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Ubiquitous computing is already with us and is changing our lifestyle, way of thinking and quality of life. Everyday objects with embedded computing - pabilities are now commonplace and, between mobile phones and RFID tags, further deployment proceeds at an unstoppable pace. The next major step of the ubiquitous computing evolution is the move, already partly underway, from isolated smart objects to distributed systems of smart objects and appropriate back-end infrastructure: microelectronics and communication technology c- verging with healthcare technology, communication technology, sports and - tertainment, housing, vehicular technology, middleware, sensor networks and so on. You will have noticed that many people in the ?eld now use the word “ub- uitous” not to mean “present everywhere” but as a shorthand for “ubiquitous computing and communications”—leading to otherwise inexplicable locutions such as “the ubiquitous society”. Rather than continuing to ?ght this syn- dochical use we have chosen to go with the ?ow, in so far as the change in language is an indication of the global spread of the meme. We have therefore chosen “ubiquitous convergence” as a concise description of the above view: a systems-oriented perspective encompassing both the technology and its appli- tions.
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Table of contents (30 papers)
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Front Matter
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Multimedia
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Applications
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Mobile, Wireless, and Ad Hoc Networking
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Book Title: Ubiquitous Convergence Technology
Book Subtitle: First International Conference, ICUCT 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, December 5-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Editors: Frank Stajano, Hyoung Joong Kim, Jong-Suk Chae, Seong-Dong Kim
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71789-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71788-1Published: 24 April 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71789-8Published: 28 June 2007
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 302
Topics: Theory of Computation, Computer Communication Networks, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Multimedia Information Systems, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction