Supporting ubiquitous sensor-cloudlets and context-cloudlets: Programming compositions of context-aware systems for mobile users

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 619-632

  Loke, Seng W ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Composition operators; Context aware pervasive systems; Context cloudlets; Sensor cloudlets

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT MODELS; COMPOSITION OPERATORS; CONTEXT-AWARE PERVASIVE COMPUTING; CONTEXT-AWARE PERVASIVE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT-CLOUDLETS; CURRENT TRENDS; DAILY LIVES; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; META-LEVEL CONTROL; MOBILE USERS; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; PAY-PER-USE MODEL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SENSOR-CLOUDLETS; SERVICE-BASED; UBIQUITOUS SENSOR;

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS; SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84855887978     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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