Title: Designing next generation middleware for context-aware ubiquitous and pervasive computing

Authors: Ioanna G. Roussaki, Maria A. Strimpakou, Miltiades E. Anagnostou

Addresses: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 157 73, Athens, Greece. ' School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 157 73, Athens, Greece. ' School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 157 73, Athens, Greece

Abstract: Ubiquitous computing systems that strive to be minimally intrusive and exhibit inherent pro-activeness and dynamic adaptability to the user preferences and environment need to be context-aware. Context Awareness (CA) has the potential to greatly alleviate the human attention and interaction bottlenecks, increase the service flexibility and support intelligent personalisation and adaptability features. This paper has sprung out from the work in Daidalos IST Integrated Project on the development of a ubiquitous and pervasive service provisioning platform. This platform is based on a robust context-aware environment that aims to advance the vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) toward technical and economic viability.

Keywords: ubiquitous computing; pervasive computing; next generation middleware; service provisioning architectures; business models; context awareness; CA; context management; ambient intelligence; personalisation; adaptability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2007.012420

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2007 Vol.2 No.3, pp.197 - 206

Published online: 12 Feb 2007 *

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