A Generic Context Model Enhanced with Self-Configuring Features
Tudor Cioara, Ionut Anghel, Ioan Salomie, Mihaela Dinsoreanu
Journal of Digital Information Management, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2009.
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Link: http://www.dirf.org/jdim/v7n3a5.asp
Abstract:
This paper addresses two fundamental research problems in the domain of context aware autonomic systems: the development of a generic context model that can   be used to represent general purpose contexts in a system interpretable way and the autonomic context model management. The proposed context model uses wo   equivalent and synchronized ways of representing the context: a set based representation and an ontology based representation. The set based representation is   used to evaluate the conditions under which the self-* processes should be executed in order to enforce the autonomic properties. The ontology representation is   used by context aware applications for reasoning and learning purposes. The increasing complexity of execution environments of the context aware systems and   the difficults of their management have headed  us towards the necessity of defining and integrating the  self-configuring autonomic paradigm in the context model   management process.the self - configuring property is enforced by monitering the real world context in  order to detect context variations or conditions for which the   context artifacts must be updated.