Keynote Speech I

Summary form only given. Intelligent ubiquitous computing applications require situation awareness for better QoS, including usability, adaptability and security, due to the dynamic environments and changes of users´ requirements. Recent rapid advances of mobile and embedded device technologies as well as services and cloud computing have made “computing anytime, anywhere” and more reachable than ever. Users now can access computing resources and services over the internet from various mobile devices with the support of services and cloud computing infrastructures. Substantial research is required to incorporate situation awareness in various intelligent ubiquitous computing applications, including system monitoring and adaptation, authentication and access control as well as context discovery, acquisition and dissemination of data, situation analysis and recognition. In this keynote, challenges, current state of the art and future research directions on incorporating situation awareness in intelligent ubiquitous computing applications will be discussed.