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Implementation of an Application System using Middleware and Context Server for Handling Context-Awareness  

Shim Choon-Bo (순천대학교 정보통신공학부)
Tae Bong-Sub (NHN(주) 게임엔진팀)
Chang Jae-Woo (전북대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Kim Jeong-Ki (한국전자통신연구원 임베디드SW연구단)
Park Seung-Min (한국전자통신연구원 임베디드SW연구단)
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Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters / v.12, no.1, 2006 , pp. 31-42 More about this Journal
Abstract
Context-awareness is a technology to facilitate information acquisition and execution by supporting interoperability between users and devices based on users' context. It is one of the most important technologies in ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we propose a middleware and a context server for dealing with context-awareness in ubiquitous Computing and implement an application system using them. The middleware proposed in our work plays an important role in recognizing a moving node with mobility by using a Bluetooth wireless communication technology as well as in executing an appropriate execution module according to the context acquired from a context server. In addition, the proposed context server functions as a manager that efficiently stores into a database server context information, such as user's current status, physical environment, and resources of a computing system. Finally, our application system implemented in our work one which provides a music playing service based on context information, and it verifies the usefulness of both the middleware and the context server developed in our work.
Keywords
Ubiquitous computing; context-awareness; middleware; context-server;
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