Embodied context models and an approach to re-using context-aware middleware
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2008-04-15T16:07:49Z
Authors
Dahlem, David C.P.
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This thesis develops a generalized approach for decoupling how a context model is
defined and executed from how context-aware data is acquired and managed within a
given middleware system. Decoupling the model specification from the data will likely
provide more avenues of context-aware investigations due to an increased flexibility in
the choice of a middleware system for handling context data. We provide a detailed
description of the approach developed for this decoupling task, called Inspect, Adapt,
Model, and Integrate (IAMI). By engaging the steps we show that a context model need
not be specifically tied to a given context-aware middleware. This successful decoupling
will likely add to the future development of context-aware systems by allowing
researchers to build upon existing frameworks as opposed to repeatedly engaging in
ground-up development. Moreover, we submit that this decoupling is important in that
the number of possible ways of representing and expressing a context model is
potentially infinite, but the choice of context-aware middleware systems is limited.
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context-aware, ubiquitous computing, context model