Blackboard-based software framework and tool for mobile device context awareness

VTT Publications

Volumn , Issue 579, 2005, Pages 3-225

  Korpipää, Panu ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Application control; Application programming interface; Blackboard based architecture; Context management; Context aware computing; Customization; End user development; Information model; Mobile computing; Mobile context awareness; Mobile interaction; Personalization; Sensor based interaction; Software framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 31944438944     PISSN: 12350621     EISSN: 14550849     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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