Context-Aware middleware architecture for smart home environment

International Journal of Smart Home

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-86

  Vahdat Nejad, Hamed ^a   Zamanifar, Kamran ^a   Nematbakhsh, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Context aware application; Context aware middleware; Pervasive computing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT AWARE MIDDLEWARE; CONTEXT GATHERING; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DYNAMIC NATURE; RESOURCE LIMITATIONS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 84876034394     PISSN: 19754094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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