Sixth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'06)
Managing Quality of Context in Pervasive Computing
Beijing, China
October 27-October 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2718-3
Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Jun Li, Nanjing University, China
Context-awareness plays a key role in a paradigm shift from traditional desktop styled computing to emerging pervasive computing. Many context-aware systems have been built to achieve the vision of pervasive computing and alleviate the human attention bottleneck; however, these systems are far from real world applications. Quality of context is critical in reducing the gap between existing systems and real-life applications. Aiming to provide the support of quality of context, in this paper, we propose a novel quality model for context information and a context management mechanism for inconsistency resolution. We also build a prototype system to validate our proposed model and mechanism, and to assist the development of contextaware applications. Through our evaluations and case study, context-aware applications can be built with the support of quality of context.
Index Terms:
context-aware systems, context model, quality of context, pervasive computing.
Citation:
Yingyi Bu, Tao Gu, Xianping Tao, Jun Li, Shaxun Chen, Jian Lu, "Managing Quality of Context in Pervasive Computing," qsic, pp.193-200, Sixth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC'06), 2006