Context as a service - Requirements, design and middleware support

2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 220-225

  Wagner, Michael ^a   Reichle, Roland ^a   Geihs, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Context aware services; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

BATTERY CONSUMPTION; CONTEXT AWARE SERVICES; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTEXT PROVIDERS; CONTEXT-AWARE; EXECUTION CONTEXT; EXTERNAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY LEVELS; SELF-ADAPTIVE; SMARTPHONES;

ACCELEROMETERS; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; METADATA; MIDDLEWARE; SENSORS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 79958022415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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