Verification of uncertain context based on a theory of context spaces

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 30-56

  Padovitz, Amir ^a   Loke, Seng Wai ^a   Zaslavsky, Arkady ^a   Burg, Bernard ^b  

^a Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering   (Australia)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Modelling; Reasoning; Uncertainty management

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349549020     PISSN: 17427371     EISSN: 1742738X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17427370710841918     Document Type: Article

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