Implementing context-aware regulation of context-aware mobile services in pervasive computing environments

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 260-305

  Syukur, Evi ^a   Loke, Seng Wai ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

context and web services; context aware policy; context aware service; mobile service; pervasive computing environment; pervasive software systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 46649086288     PISSN: 17411106     EISSN: 17411114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2006.011357     Document Type: Article

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24. One could also think, a mobile user interacts with music device that is embedded on the wall via voice command. A policy mechanism gets called once, there is a request from a user to perform certain action on the music service.