Quality of context: Models and applications for context-aware systems in pervasive environments

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 154-170

  Manzoor, Atif ^a   Truong, Hong Linh ^a   Dustdar, Schahram ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS; DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; PERVASIVE ENVIRONMENTS; QUALITY OF CONTEXTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84926227657     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: 14698005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888914000034     Document Type: Article

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