Title: Facilitating human-centric service delivery using a pluggable service development framework

Authors: Nikolaos Dimakis, Georgios Gkekas, Ghassan Karame, Theofilos Karachristos, Stamatis Tsolakidis, John K. Soldatos, Lazaros Polymenakos

Addresses: Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2BT, UK. ' European Space Agency, ESA/ESOC, Advanced Mission Concepts and Technologies Office (OPS-HSC), Robert Bosch Strabe 5, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany. ' ETH Zurich, System Security Group, IFW C 41.1 Haldeneggsteig 4/Weinbergstrasse, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. ' Athens Information Technology, 19.5Km. Markopoulou Ave., GR-19002 Peania, Attiki, Greece. ' Athens Information Technology, 19.5Km. Markopoulou Ave., GR-19002 Peania, Attiki, Greece. ' Athens Information Technology, 19.5Km. Markopoulou Ave., GR-19002 Peania, Attiki, Greece. ' Athens Information Technology, 19.5Km. Markopoulou Ave., GR-19002 Peania, Attiki, Greece

Abstract: Context-aware computing systems aim at facilitating human-computer interaction by providing non-obtrusive services to the end users. Such services require sophisticated software architectural frameworks which enable the reusability, scalability and autonomy of the resulting services, while being able to adapt to the environment. In this paper we describe a number of sophisticated context-aware services, which have been designed and implemented using a breadboard software architecture for pervasive human-centric services, using techniques for situation recognition based on monitoring the environment. These services exploit a wide range of context-acquisition components and sensors controllers which can be provided by a variety of vendors.

Keywords: smart spaces; middleware architecture; multi-agent systems; MAS; agent-based systems; context awareness; ubiquitous services; human-computer interaction; HCI; human-centric service delivery; pluggable service development; situation recognition; sensors.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2009.024525

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009 Vol.4 No.3/4, pp.223 - 236

Published online: 08 Apr 2009 *

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