The progress in mobile devices and wireless networks technologies has considerably contributed to integrate pervasive computing expertise in many domains with the aim of improving the quality of services and users' mobility. However, in many situations, users may face difficult situations,...

A common design of the Internet of Things (IoT) system relies on distant Cloud for management and processing, which faces the challenge of latency, especially when the application requires rapid response in the edge network. Therefore, researchers have proposed the Fog computing architecture,...

The smart spaces built on the ubiquitous network make the services available for every entity in a seamless way using the most suitable resource provider. However, all services are not equally sensitive; hence do not require the same levels of security. In this paper, the authors propose an...

The King Abdullah Scholarship Program was created in 2005 by sending Saudi students to study abroad. The program has a series of specific rules and it was found that due to the multitude of services the students can choose from, there is a great difficulty in finding the most suitable...

Advanced social network applications and technologies offer a wide range of opportunities for experts and developers to exploit efficiently a large amount of services and user-generated content produced through social networking. The mobile user prefers to use mobile devices to ask for relevant...