Max Mühlhäuser

Max Mühlhäuser is head of the Telecooperation Division at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Computer Science Dept. He has about 25 years of experience in research and teaching in areas related to Ubiquitous Computing (UC) at the Universities of Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Linz, Darmstadt, Montréal, Sophia Antipolis, and San Diego (UCSD). In 1993, he founded the TeCO institute (www.teco.edu) in Karlsruhe, Germany that became one of the pace-makers for UC research in Europe. SAP Research is one of his major industrial partners. Max regularly publishes in UC conferences and journals and is an author of chapters about Ubiquitous Computing in computer science textbooks, readers, etc., with a total of more than 200 publications. He is a reviewer for UC conferences, member of editorial boards in journals, and guest editor in journals like Pervasive Computing, ACM Multimedia, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, etc.

Publications

Modern Standards for VoiceXML in Pervasive Multimodal Applications
Dirk Schnelle-Walka, Stefan Radomski, Max Mühlhäuser. © 2015. 27 pages.
In this chapter, we will consider the language support of VoiceXML 2.1 to express flexible dialogs in pervasive environments. Missing information about the environment and the...
Can We Use Your Router, Please?: Benefits and Implications of an Emergency Switch for Wireless Routers
Kamill Panitzek, Immanuel Schweizer, Axel Schulz, Tobias Bönning, Gero Seipel, Max Mühlhäuser. © 2012. 12 pages.
During rescue missions first responders rely on voice communication making crisis management nearly impossible without good means of communication. Unfortunately the...
Reducing User Perceived Latency with a Proactive Prefetching Middleware for Mobile SOA Access
Daniel Schreiber, Andreas Göb, Erwin Aitenbichler, Max Mühlhäuser. © 2011. 18 pages.
Network latency is one of the most critical factors for the usability of mobile SOA applications. This paper introduces prefetching and caching enhancements for an existing SOA...
Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing
Max Mühlhäuser, Iryna Gurevych. © 2010. 19 pages.
The term ubiquitous computing was coined and introduced by the late Mark Weiser (1952-1999). He worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, now an independent...
Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing
Max Mühlhäuser, Iryna Gurevych. © 2009. 19 pages.
The term ubiquitous computing was coined and introduced by the late Mark Weiser (1952-1999). He worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, now an independent...
Handbook of Research on Ubiquitous Computing Technology for Real Time Enterprises
Max Mühlhäuser, Iryna Gurevych. © 2008. 662 pages.
After the mainframe and personal computer eras, the third major era in computer science, ubiquitous computing, describes the state of technology in which networked computers...
Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing
Max Mühlhäuser, Iryna Gurevych. © 2008. 20 pages.
The present chapter is intended as a lightweight introduction to ubiquitous computing as a whole, in preparation for the more specific book parts and chapters that cover selected...