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What is Context-aware services

Chapter 9
Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives
Services which coordinated and provided properly according to the user context, that is for example characteristic, status and situation. It is considered that context-aware services are included or overlapped by assistive services. Although essential contextual information differs from each service, information on place, time and identification is considered as fundamental contextual information.
Published in Chapter:
Assistive Technologies in Smart Homes
Tatsuya Yamazaki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-857-5.ch009
Abstract
This book chapter provides a review of the assistive technologies deployed in smart spaces with a variety of smart home or house examples. In the first place, home networking technologies and sensing technologies are surveyed as fundamental technologies to support smart environment. After reviewing representative smart home projects from across the world, concrete assistive services related with the fundamental technologies in smart environment are deployed not only for the elderly and handicapped but for people in ordinary families as well. Adaptability is one of the key essences in the assistive technologies in smart environment and, for this purpose, human-ware studies including man-machine interfaces, ergonomics and gerontology are needed to be linked with the hardware specific fundamental technologies.
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Chapter 17
Legacy Software Integration in Service-Driven Environments: An Intelligent Agent-Based Framework
A technique which incorporates information about current situation to activate more relevant service.
Published in Chapter: Legacy Software Integration in Service-Driven Environments: An Intelligent Agent-Based Framework; From: Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing
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Chapter 9
Service Selection with Uncertain Context Information
Services of which description is enriched with context information related to non-functional requirements, describing the service execution environment or its adaptation capabilities.
Published in Chapter: Service Selection with Uncertain Context Information; From: Handbook of Research on Service-Oriented Systems and Non-Functional Properties: Future Directions
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Service-Driven Computing: Challenges and Trends
Services that have the ability to gather information about the environment in which they operate and use that information to change their observable behavior to adapt to the current situation. Context adaptation is generally implemented using a three phase architectural model that involves Context sensing, Context Modeling, and Context Reasoning.
Published in Chapter: Service-Driven Computing: Challenges and Trends; From: Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing
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Considering Quality of a Service in an Intentional Approach
Services of which description is enriched with context information related to non-functional requirements, describing the service execution environment or its adaptation capabilities.
Published in Chapter: Considering Quality of a Service in an Intentional Approach; From: Handbook of Research on Service-Oriented Systems and Non-Functional Properties: Future Directions
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