Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, Finland, 17-20 May, 2010

Welcome to the proceedings of the 8 International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010). After Toronto, Sydney and Nara, the conference has now returned to Europe. Pervasive is one of the most important conferences in the area of pervasive and ubiquitous computing. As in the previous year, we had two categories of technical papers: Full Papers and Notes. Pervasive attracted 157 valid submissions, from which the Technical Program Committee (TPC) accepted 24 full papers and one note, resulting in an overall acceptance rate of 16%. The submissions included 628 authors from 27 countries representing all the continents (except Antarctica). As we can see from these figures, Pervasive is a truly global highly competitive conference. A major conference such as Pervasive requires a rigorous and objective process for selecting papers. This starts with the selection of a high-quality TPC. We were fortunate to be able to draw on the wisdom and experience of our 28 TPC members, from the most prestigious universities and research labs in Europe, North America, and Asia. This committee was aided by the input of no less than 238 external reviewers chosen on the basis of their domain knowledge and relevance to pervasive computing. The papers were selected using a double-blind review, with four peer reviews per paper, a discussion phase among the reviewers, and a discussion of the papers in the TPC meeting, which was held in Palo Alto during December 12-13, 2009. We thank Nokia Research Center for hosting the meeting.