Authors:
Jung-Hyun Bae
;
Soon-il Cha
and
Seok-Kyu Shin
Affiliation:
Telecommunications Technology Association, Korea, Republic of
Keyword(s):
Ubiquitous Computing (UC), Evaluation, Quality Characteristic.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Mobile Software and Services
;
Pervasive Computing
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
One of the main problem with the evaluation of ubiquitous computing (UC) is that we do not have standards guidelines, or metrics, even though there have been many researches on the individual technical aspects of ubiquitous systems. UC systems differ from standard applications in many ways. Therefore, it is very hard to apply the current working standards or metrics to the evaluation of UC system, which leads us to develop a desirable way to deal with this. This paper suggests the evaluation issues of service and system software to provide ubiquitous computing. Also, we investigate how equally the evaluation scopes we have suggested and the quality characteristics could be matched with the current technological feasibility of the ubiquitous computing systems, so we can see what benefits and the deficiencies of the proposed evaluation scopes would be. Two case studies are considered and these can be seen as the most-likely applications in the current ubiquitous computing environment.