Sensor Systems and Software. Second International ICST Conference, S-Cube 2010, Miami, FL, USA, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Distributed Context Models in Support of Ubiquitous Mobile Awareness Services

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-23583-2_9,
        author={Jamie Walters and Theo Kanter and Roger Norling},
        title={Distributed Context Models in Support of Ubiquitous Mobile Awareness Services},
        proceedings={Sensor Systems and Software. Second International ICST Conference, S-Cube 2010, Miami, FL, USA, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={S-CUBE},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Object-Oriented Context Awareness Peer-to-Peer Context Agents},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-23583-2_9}
    }
    
  • Jamie Walters
    Theo Kanter
    Roger Norling
    Year: 2012
    Distributed Context Models in Support of Ubiquitous Mobile Awareness Services
    S-CUBE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23583-2_9
Jamie Walters1,*, Theo Kanter1,*, Roger Norling1,*
  • 1: Mid Sweden University
*Contact email: jamie.walters@miun.se, theo.kanter@miun.se, roger.norling@miun.se

Abstract

Real-time context aware applications require dynamic support reflecting the continual changes in context. Architectures that distribute and utilize the supporting sensor information within the constraints of publish-subscribe systems provide sensor information in primitive forms requiring extensive application-level transformations limiting the dynamic addition and removal of sources. Elevating sensors to first class objects in a meta-model addresses these issues by applying ontological dimensions in direct support of context. This paper proposes an extension of such a model into a distributed architecture co-located with context user agents. This arrangement provides clients with a model schema which is continually evolving over sensor domains. In addition, the evolving model schema represents an accurate temporal view of a userâĂŹs context with respect to the available sensors and actuators.