Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing [electronic resource] : Third International Conference, UIC 2006, Wuhan, China, September 3-6, 2006. Proceedings / edited by Jianhua Ma, Hai Jin, Laurence T. Yang, Jeffrey J.-P. Tsai.

Keynote Speech -- Track 1: Smart Objects and Embedded Systems -- Track 2: Smart Spaces/Environments/Platforms -- Track 3: Ad Hoc and Intelligent Networks -- Track 4: Sensor Networks -- Track 5: Pervasive Communications and Mobile Systems -- Track 6: Context-Aware Computing and Systems -- Track 7: Security, Safety and Privacy -- Track 8: Services, Models, Personal/Social Factors.

WelcometotheproceedingsoftheThirdInternationalConferenceonUbiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2006), Building Smart Worlds on Real and Cyber Spaces, which was held in Wuhan and Three Gorges, China, September 3-6, 2006. Following ubiquitous computers, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both real and cyber spaces. A SW is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence (UI) or computational intel- gence pervasive in the physical world, ?lled with ubiquitous intelligent or smart things that are capable of computing, communicating, and behaving smartly with some intelligence. One of the profound implications of such ubiquitous smartthingsisthatvariouskindsandlevelsofintelligencewillexistubiquitously in everyday objects, environments, systems and even ourselves, and possibly be extended from man-made to natural things. “Ubicomp” or “percomp” can be regarded as the computing of all these intelligent/smart things/u-things, that are essential elements and components of the SW. A smart thing can be endowed with di?erent levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware,active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, - tomated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Intel- gent/smart things is an emerging research ?eld covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the ubiquitous world with univ- sal services of any means/place/time to the SW of trustworthy services with the right means/place/time. UIC 2006 was a successor of the Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW 2005) held in Japan, December, 2005, which succeeded the First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW 2005) held in Taiwan, March, 2005.