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System Support for Pervasive Applications

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Pervasive, or ubiquitous, computing [38.4] has the potential to radically transform the way people interact with computers. The key idea behind pervasive computing is to deploy a wide variety of computing devices throughout our living and working spaces. These devices coordinate with each other and network services, with the goal of seamlessly assisting people in completing their tasks. Pervasive computing thus marks a major shift in focus, away from the actual computing technology and towards people and their needs.

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  1. New York University, New York, NY

    Robert Grimm

  2. University of Washington, Seattle, WA

    Brian Bershad

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  1. Faculté Informatique et Communication, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, IN-Ecublens, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    André Schiper

  2. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Unit 3155, 06269, Storrs, CT, USA

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  3. Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, 447/443 Soda Hall, 94704-1776, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Grimm, R., Bershad, B. (2003). System Support for Pervasive Applications. In: Schiper, A., Shvartsman, A.A., Weatherspoon, H., Zhao, B.Y. (eds) Future Directions in Distributed Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2584. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37795-6_38

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