Optimizing the utility function-based self-adaptive behavior of context-aware systems using user feedback

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5331 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 657-674

  Kakousis, Konstantinos ^a   Paspallis, Nearchos ^a   Papadopoulos, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Context aware; Self adaptation; User feedback; Utility functions

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIORS; CONTEXT CHANGES; CONTEXT-AWARE; POTENTIAL USERS; SELF-ADAPTATION; SELF-ADAPTIVE; USER ATTENTIONS; USER BENEFITS; USER FEEDBACK; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 58049131244     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88871-0_46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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