Written for those familiar with the basics and active in the area of mobile and ubiquitous computing, this volume contains papers that aid in understanding key issues and problems being tackled in the field.

Dr. Evi Syukur is the cofounder and CEO of HexaMobilIndo Consulting company. She served as a senior researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She also served as a .NET developer at Yarra Trams Company, Melbourne, Australia. Syukur received her PhD in computer science from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Her research interests include service-oriented systems/ applications, context-aware service applications, and smart services/objects. She has also published widely in several international journals, conferences, and workshops. She has been on the PC cochairs, publicity cochairs, and program committees of numerous international conferences and workshops. She was the co-guest editor of selected International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (IJPCC) special issue on ubiquitous intelligence in smart world.

Professor Laurence T. Yang is a professor in computer science in the Department of Computer Science at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. His current research includes parallel and distributed computing as well as embedded and ubiquitous/pervasive computing. He has published more than 350 papers in various refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters in these areas, including around 120 international journal papers such as IEEE and ACM Transactions. He has been actively involved in conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chair and numerous conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (2001-2004), the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (2008-2011), and the chair of IEEE Task Force on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (2009-till present).

Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. Smart Environments and Agent Systems. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Multimedia Computing. Security, Privacy, and Trust Management. Embedded Real-Time Systems. Networking Sensing and Communications.