Context aware middleware architectures: Survey and challenges

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 20570-20607

  Li, Xin ^a   Eckert, Martina ^a   Martinez, José Fernán ^a   Rubio, Gregorio ^a  

^a Technical University of Madrid UPM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context; Context aware middleware; Context awareness; Modeling; Ontology; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; DIGITAL STORAGE; FAULT TOLERANCE; INTEROPERABILITY; MODELS; ONTOLOGY; SURVEYS;

CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CONTEXT; CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT AWARE MIDDLEWARE; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE; REASONING; TRADITIONAL MIDDLEWARE;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 84939856749     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150820570     Document Type: Article

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