Modeling and simulation to assist context aware system design

Simulation

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 149-170

  O'Neill, Eleanor ^a   Conlan, Owen ^a   Lewis, David ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Context awareness; design tool; modelling; prototyping; simulation; test bed; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT- AWARENESS; DESIGN TOOL; MODELLING; PROTOTYPING; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 78650407489     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: 17413133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549710366574     Document Type: Article

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