Title
PICO: A Middleware Framework for Pervasive Computing
Abstract
Pervasive information communities organization is a framework for creating mission-oriented dynamic communities of autonomous software entities that perform tasks for users and devices. PICO provides automated continual services to improve quality of life and uses resources efficiently by enhancing existing Internet services. PICO's main components are software entities, called delegents (intelligent delegates), and hardware entities, called camileuns (connected, adaptive, mobile, intelligent, learned, efficient, ubiquitous nodes). Its novel features include creating mission-oriented dynamic communities of software agents, just-in-time communication and proactive collaboration among these communities, and adapting hardware and software changes as well as application requirements. As a pervasive computing paradigm, PICO has applications in domains such as telemedicine, military, crisis management, and many day-to-day activities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/MPRV.2003.1228529
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Middleware,Pervasive computing,Application software,Hardware,Military computing,Educational institutions,Telemedicine,Internet,Computer interfaces,Intelligent agent
Middleware,Middleware (distributed applications),Grid computing,Computer science,Software agent,Human–computer interaction,Context-aware pervasive systems,End-user computing,Ubiquitous computing,Distributed computing,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
3
1536-1268
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
70
4.45
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohan Kumar1101967.15
Behrooz Shirazi21155102.79
Sajal K. Das38086745.54
Byung Y. Sung4765.28
David Levine51189.73
Mukesh Singhal62602259.07