Pervasive computing middleware inherits general tasks of traditional middleware in distributed systems such as coordination, communication, security and tolerance for component failures and disconnections. In general, context-aware middleware lies on top of the operating system of mobile phones, PDAs, personal computers, servers, laptops, and other computational devices of the environment to firstly discover and register context sources, and then perform gathering, aggregating, assessing quality of context, modeling and reasoning, and finally create transparent dissemination mechanisms to distribute pure contextual information among interested applications while protecting privacy of users.

PerCAM 17 invites authors to submit their original papers that address issues related to pervasive as well as cloud computing. Topics of interest are included but not limited to:

- Architectural issues of pervasive computing
- Operating system support for pervasive computing
- Common trends of pervasive and cloud computing
- Mobile cloud computing
- Ubiquitous cloud computing
- Mobility issues in pervasive computing
- Expandability & scalability issues in pervasive computing
- Software engineering techniques for pervasive computing
- Software development methodology for pervasive computing
- Evaluating methods for pervasive computing
- Embodiments of pervasive systems
- Context awareness
- Privacy protection in pervasive computing
- Ubiquitous computing in healthcare, Intelligent transportation systems, tourism, etc.
- Ubiquitous commerce
- Internet of Things
- Cloud computing
- Smart Cities