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CH-AVATAR is a context-aware platform for tourists and visitors of Cultural Heritage sites. Cultural Heritage objects (CH objects) become “alive” within the platform. They tell their stories and interact with tourists. The platform employs BLE beacons and the visitor's smartphone or tablet to create an interactive and adaptive Cultural Heritage experience for its end users. The paper makes a generic...
In this paper, we propose a process calculus, Context-aware System Calculus (CSC), in order to describe context-aware systems that can maintain context models and carry out some operations, including requesting context-aware services, according to the context rules. Besides, a context-aware system can also communicate with other systems or receive context information from context providers by sharing...
We present PeerSense, a system that provides meaningful co-presence information which serves as an enabler for various applications that require user's current social proximity information, for example contextual photo-sharing. Unlike traditional approaches for inferring co-presence, PeerSense is both privacy-preserving and easy-to-use.
Traditionally, context-aware applications are developed using one of the following approaches: each application communicates directly with sources of context information; applications are developed with the aid of reusable libraries for processing context information or applications have their own context models. These approaches not only require effort on the part of those who develop them, but also...
We present a novel software architecture for context-aware applications based on a distributed, non-monolithic, simple and extensible relational model for representing context; a service-oriented architecture for computing these relations in a decoupled, flexible fashion; and with data driven, event based communication providing the kind of fine grained dynamic service composition required in mobile...
This paper presents a middleware for building context-aware applications. One of the main components, Device Information Access (DIA), is discussed in detail. Since many kinds of devices (e.g., RFID, GPS, Bluetooth, etc.) can be used to collect the context information, the middleware defines the Device Information Access component to communicate with different devices. A set of interfaces are devised...
During the past decade, there have been many agent-based middleware architectures proposed for implementing agent-based middleware systems in various context aware application fields. But those systems are not based on the real intelligent agent. In this paper, we propose an intelligent agent-based middleware for context aware systems (IAMCAS). It aims to sense, combine, infer, predict and learn context...
In this contribution, a real experience of rapid design and deployment of context-aware services for an exhibition hall is detailed. The prototype has been built on a combination of a commercial system (which has been customized and improved to satisfy the prototype needs) with an in-home developed context acquisition framework. In order to partially overcome device fragmentation issues, we have focused...
Sensory originated data collection and processing has always been a big challenge in wireless sensor networks (WSN). WSN represent a distributed producer of large amount of valuable data required by varied number of applications. In this paper we propose the use of context aware data mules (CADAMULE) as a solution for smart data collection within sensor networks. We present an extension to Context...
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