21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (AINAW'07)
A Modular Architecture for Context Sensing
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
May 21-May 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2847-3
Andres Fortier, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina; Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina; CONICET
Due to the technological evolution, context-aware computing is slowly moving from dream to reality. These applications heavily rely in sensing the user?s environment and abstracting this information to perform high-level adaptation. While technological issues have been mostly addressed, sensing software is usually built in a handcrafted way, which turns into building ad-hoc solutions for every new application. To solve this problem, we consider that context sensing should be regarded as a software engineering problem and not a simple implementation issue. In this paper we present a software architecture for dealing with context-sensing aspects in a high-level modular way. We show that by using this approach, evolution issues typical of mobile wireless software can be managed easily by replacing or composing software modules without compromising performance.
Citation:
Julian Grigera, Andres Fortier, Gustavo Rossi, Silvia Gordillo, "A Modular Architecture for Context Sensing," ainaw, vol. 2, pp.147-152, 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (AINAW'07), 2007