A FLEXIBLE MIDDLEWARE COMPONENT FOR CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS

Cristina Barbero, Paola Dal Zovo, Barbara Gobbi

2011

Abstract

The ever-growing complexity of pervasive and Internet of Things enabled environments raises great challenges to context-aware pervasive application development. In particular, context representation and reasoning methods, as well as middleware and supporting infrastructures for context sensitive application engineering, must have a high level of flexibility in order to cope with the increasing dynamicity and heterogeneity of pervasive scenarios. This paper presents a solution devised to provide the foundations for the development of context-adaptive applications with diverse requirements. The Context Awareness component consists of an extensible and configurable framework that integrates a semantic reasoning module and multiple processing agents providing specialized / optimized processing capabilities. Finally, a case study shows how the adopted solution allows tackling the complexity of context-aware applications development.

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Barbero C., Dal Zovo P. and Gobbi B. (2011). A FLEXIBLE MIDDLEWARE COMPONENT FOR CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8425-48-5, pages 32-41. DOI: 10.5220/0003363300320041


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@conference{peccs11,
author={Cristina Barbero and Paola Dal Zovo and Barbara Gobbi},
title={A FLEXIBLE MIDDLEWARE COMPONENT FOR CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2011},
pages={32-41},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003363300320041},
isbn={978-989-8425-48-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - A FLEXIBLE MIDDLEWARE COMPONENT FOR CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-48-5
AU - Barbero C.
AU - Dal Zovo P.
AU - Gobbi B.
PY - 2011
SP - 32
EP - 41
DO - 10.5220/0003363300320041