Challeng es for context manag ement s ystems imposed by context inference

Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services, MUCS'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-33

  Frank, Korbinian ^a   Kalatzis, Nikos ^b   Roussaki, Ioanna ^b   Liampotis, Nicolas ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Context inference; Context management; Smart spaces

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT INFERENCE; CONTEXT MANAGEMENT; CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT-MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DESIGN DECISIONS; FUTURE FRAMEWORK; HIGH FLEXIBILITY; HUMAN EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; INFERENCE RULES; INFERENCE SYSTEMS; RESOURCE COSTS; SMART SPACE; SMART SPACES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MANAGEMENT;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 70049110886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555321.1555329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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