Authors:
Cristina Barbero
;
Paola Dal Zovo
and
Barbara Gobbi
Affiliation:
Concept Reply (a Business Unit of Santer Reply SPA), Italy
Keyword(s):
Context Aware Computing, Pervasive Computing, Service Oriented Architecture and Middleware, Semantic Technologies, Automated Reasoning, Internet of Things.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Context
;
Context-Aware Applications
;
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services
Abstract:
The ever-growing complexity of pervasive and Internet of Things enabled environments raises great challenges to context-aware pervasive application development. In particular, context representation and reasoning methods, as well as middleware and supporting infrastructures for context sensitive application engineering, must have a high level of flexibility in order to cope with the increasing dynamicity and heterogeneity of pervasive scenarios. This paper presents a solution devised to provide the foundations for the development of context-adaptive applications with diverse requirements. The Context Awareness component consists of an extensible and configurable framework that integrates a semantic reasoning module and multiple processing agents providing specialized / optimized processing capabilities. Finally, a case study shows how the adopted solution allows tackling the complexity of context-aware applications development.