Distributed Context Retrieval and Consistency Control in Pervasive Computing

Autor: Carsten Pils, Maria Strimpakou, Ioanna Roussaki
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Journal of Network and Systems Management. 15:57-74
ISSN: 1573-7705
1064-7570
DOI: 10.1007/s10922-006-9053-6
Popis: The challenge of saturating all phases of pervasive service provision with context-aware functionality lies in coping with the complexity of maintaining, retrieving and distributing context information. To efficiently represent and query context information a sophisticated modelling scheme should exist. To distribute and synchronise context knowledge in various context repositories across a multitude of administrative domains, streamlined mechanisms are needed. This paper elaborates on an innovative context management framework that has been designed to cope with free-text and location based context retrieval and efficient context consistency control. The proposed framework has been incorporated in a multi-functional pervasive services platform, while most of the mechanisms it employs have been empirically evaluated.
Databáze: OpenAIRE