This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications, Mobilware 2012, held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2012.

AIRS: A Mobile Sensing Platform for Lifestyle Management Research and Applications.- Crowd-Based Smart Parking: A Case Study for Mobile Crowdsourcing.- Making P-Space Smart: Integrating IoT Technologies in a Multi-office Environment.- Middleware for Semantic Multicast in Spontaneous Multi-hop Networks.- Automotive Proxy-Based Security Architecture for CE Device Integration.- Formalization of a Fully-Decoupled Reactive Tuple Space Model for Mobile Middleware.- NASDI – Naming and Service Discovery for DTNs in Internet Backbones.- An Adaptive Handover Decision Algorithm for Heterogenous Wireless Networks.- A Common Platform API for Android.- Tracommender – Exploiting Continuous Background Tracking Information on Smartphones for Location-Based Recommendations.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications, Mobilware 2012, held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2012. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Internet of things and mobile sensing, mobile middleware platforms, mobile networks, systems support for mobile applications, and context awareness.