Preserving individual privacy in context-aware ubiquitous computing environments - an intelligent and distributed agent technology for context-dependent privacy control

Context-aware computing aims to take advantage of contextual knowledge to make decisions about how lo dynamically provide services or adapt to meet user requirements. A tradeoff exists between preserving indvidual privacy and disclosing information to benefit from rich and interesting services. Although privacy issues have been recognized as a great barrier to the adoption and a long-term success of the context-aware computing, an extensive literature review conducted by the author has indicated that only a small subset of the privacy needs and challenges have been moderately addressed, and demand for adequate privacy protection in the context-aware paradigm is significant.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo