Everything about Pervasive Software

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Pervasive SoftwareA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Review Paper on Application of Model-Driven Architecture in Use-Case Driven Pervasive Software DevelopmentInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A software tool ‘CroCo’ detects pervasive cross-species contamination in next generation sequencing dataCited 99 times
5. Go sideways: Actian ZenA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: BtrieveA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A software tool ‘CroCo’ detects pervasive cross-species contamination in next generation sequencing data

  Paul Simion, Khalid Belkhir, Clémentine François · 2018 · BMC Biology · 99 citations

• Pervasive Software Environments for Supporting Disaster Responses

  Tiziana Catarci, Massimiliano de Leoni, Andrea Marrella · 2008 · IEEE Internet Computing · 57 citations

• How Does Software Make Space? Exploring Some Geographical Dimensions of Pervasive Computing and Software Studies

  Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Matthew Zook · 2009 · Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space · 54 citations

• Context and Adaptivity in Pervasive Computing Environments: Links with Software Engineering and Ontological Engineering

  Ahmet Soylu, Patrick De Causmaecker, Piet Desmet · 2009 · Journal of Software · 49 citations

• eCloudRFID – A mobile software framework architecture for pervasive RFID-based applications

  Leonardo A. Amaral, Fabiano P. Hessel, Eduardo A. Bezerra · 2011 · Journal of Network and Computer Applications · 46 citations

• Software architecture for pervasive critical health monitoring system using fog computing

  Abeera Ilyas, Mohammed Naif Alatawi, Yasir Hamid · 2022 · Journal of Cloud Computing · 24 citations

• Improving the Effectiveness of Testing Pervasive Software via Context Diversity

  Huai Wang, W. K. Chan, T. H. Tse · 2014 · ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems · 20 citations

• An intelligent, uncertainty driven management scheme for software updates in pervasive IoT applications

  Kostas Kolomvatsos · 2018 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 18 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Review Paper on Application of Model-Driven Architecture in Use-Case Driven Pervasive Software Development

  Julia N. Korongo, Samuel T. Mbugua, Samuel M. Mbuguah · 2022 · International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology · 4 citations

• Quality‐in‐Use in Practice: A Study for Context‐Aware Software Systems in Pervasive Environments

  Sergio Salomón, Rafael Duque, Santos Bringas · 2025 · Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 2 citations

• Pervasive Computing X Software Engineering: Perspectives to ICSE 2024

  Ella Peltonen · 2025 · IEEE Pervasive Computing · 0 citations

• The Pervasive Impact of Software Engineering and Architecture: A Multi-Industry Analysis

  Karthik Akinepalli · 2024 · International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology · 0 citations

• Pervasive Computing For New Design In Big Data Analytics Software Development: Requirements Engineering Perspective

  · 2024 · Journal of Current Trends in Computer Science Research · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Marshall C. Yovits · 1995
• PatternsIBM Redbooks · 2002
• Pervasive Computing and the Networked WorldQiaohong Zu · 2013
• Pervasive computingHorst Henn, Stefan Hepper · 2001
• Digital GroundMalcolm McCullough · 2004
• Security in pervasive computingDieter Hutter, Günter Müller · 2004
• Biometrics in the New WorldJulian Ashbourn · 2014
• 📕PERVASIVE SOFTWARE INCICON Group Ltd. · 2000

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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