Strategic pervasive computing applications : emerging trends / Varuna Godara [editor].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The focus of this book is on the ever increasing capacity of Pervasive context-aware applications that are aiming to develop into context-responsive applications in different application areas"--Provided by publisher.

Section 1: foundation, software and technology of pervasive computing -- Recent trends in pervasive and ubiquitous computing: a survey / Ramesh Singh -- Kernel parameter selection for SVM classification: AdaBoost approach / Manju Bala, R.K. Agrawal -- Software parallel processsing in pervasive computing / Jitesh Dundas -- A software component generation model for pervasive computing environment / Ratneshwer -- Section 2: securing pervasive computing environment -- Key establishment for securing pervasive wireless sensor networks / Anusree Banerjee [and others] -- SRIP: a secure hybrid routing information protocol for WSN / Rajshree [and others] -- A progressive exposure approach for secure service discovery in pervasive computing environments / S. Durga -- Security in pervasive computing: a blackhole attack perspective / Sunita Prasad, Rakesh Chouhan -- Section 3: applications of pervasive computing -- The causes of developing a wireless city: Singapore versus Taipei (Taiwan) / Mei-Chih Hu, Chien-Hung Liu, Ching-Yan Wu -- Knowledge super corridors in developing countries: a critical perspective / Chun Kwong Han -- An intelligent framework for automatic question set generation / Joydip Dhar [and others] -- Section 4: pervasive healthcare -- Neuro linguistic programming: towards better understanding of human computer interaction / Ankur Choubey, Ramesh Singh -- Tele-immersive psychotherapy: stepping towards pervasive computer aided healthcare / Anubhav Kumar Singh, Ramesh Singh -- Optimal resource allocation model for pervasive healthcare using genetic algorithm / Lutfi Mohammed Omer Khanbary, Deo Prakash Vidyarthi -- Section 5: pervasive education -- Student learning in an online environment: differences in study approaches / Rodney Arambewela -- Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence development: an educational perspective / Vladimir Bures, Pavel Cech -- Re-engineering higher education : the seamless knowledge management system for the university / K.V. Bhanu Murthy -- Virtual vidyalaya: an integration of pervasive computing and e-learning / Ashutosh Kasera, Piyush Ranjan -- Developing learning communities: improving interactivity of an online class / Pawan Jain, Smita Jain.