Editorial: Smart Space Technological Developments

Smart Space (SS) represents an advanced communication environment featuring daily-life objects that continuously involve non-expert users. SS has rapidly emerged as an exciting new development paradigm which integrates different active research fields such as ubiquitous, grid and P2P communications providing new exciting seamless service applications for next generation smart space environments. This Special Section aims to address system and network issues of SS communications. It will solicit original research papers on topics including effective context extraction and representation, context-based services, integration of legacy systems and services, security, business models and novel applications of SS utilisation. Tenmanuscripts were finally selected for this Special Section after the first, second review processes. Each manuscript selected was blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers consisting of guest editors and external reviewers.