Resource-optimized quality-assured ambiguous context mediation framework in pervasive environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 218-229

  Roy, Nirmalya ^a   Das, Sajal K ^b   Julien, Christine ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

ambiguous contexts; Bayesian networks; Context awareness; information theory; multisensor fusion; SunSPOT

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUOUS CONTEXTS; CONTEXT AWARE SERVICES; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTEXT MEDIATION; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORK; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT; OPTIMAL STATE ESTIMATION; PERVASIVE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; PERVASIVE ENVIRONMENTS; SENSOR PARAMETER; SUNSPOT; USER CONTEXT; VITAL SIGN;

INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTIMIZATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84555189290     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2011.20     Document Type: Article

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