A chemical model to enable context awareness

Ikram, A; Baker, N; Knappmeyer, M; Tönjes, Ralf

Abstract

Modeling ad-hoc context-aware services and applications that are delivered to a user as they move through a smart space has always been fraught with difficulty. It requires representation, management and inference of context, dynamic update of both context & application domain models, reasoning matching, querying and triggering of services. Quite often these systems comprise of many models and extensive middleware which seems excessive for simple context-aware applications involving mobile and wireless devices. Configuring and triggering services automatically whilst traversing a particular space further compounds the complexity. Part of the problem is finding a conceptual abstraction which is compact and concise yet can inclusively model all the dynamism and expressivity required of such a system. In this paper we propose a Chemical Model inspired by Mendeleev's periodic table that we have experimented with and shows promise in fulfilling these requirements.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2011 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2011)
• Start Date: Feb 7, 2011
• End Date: Feb 10, 2011
• Acceptance Date: Feb 1, 2011
• Publication Date: Feb 28, 2011
• Deposit Date: Feb 27, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Series ISSN: 2157-4952; 2157-4960
• Book Title: 2011 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security
• ISBN: 978-1-4244-8705-9; 978-1-4244-8702-8; 978-1-4244-8703-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ntms.2011.5721147
• Keywords: Context, Context modeling, Computational modeling, Chemicals, Chemical elements, Context-aware services, Bonding
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10477894
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5721147
• Related Public URLs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/5720565/proceeding