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Development of a Context Middleware supporting Context-Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Environment (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 상황인식을 지원하는 컨텍스트 미들웨어 개발)

  • Shim, Choon-Bo;Shin, Yong-Won
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2005
  • Adaptive services need to become as mobile as their users and be extended to take advantage of the constantly changing context in which they are accessed. Context-awareness is a technology to facilitate information acquisition and execution by supporting interoperability between users and devices based on users' context. The objective of this study is to develop a middleware fer dealing with context-awareness in ubiquitous computing. To achieve it, our middleware 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, for verifying the usefulness of the Proposed middleware, we develop an application system which Provides a music playing service based on context information by using our context middleware.

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An Analysis of Inquiry Context Elements in the High School Science Textbooks (고등학교 과학 교과서의 탐구상황요소 분석)

  • Kim, Young-Ae;Sung, Min-Wung
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 2003
  • The present study was carried out to analyse the frequency(%) for five kinds of inquiry context elements for six kinds of the high school science textbooks in the 7th curriculum. All the elements was classified into three process achievement level such as the basic, supplementary and further level introduced firstly in the 7th curriculum. Five elements of the inquiry context categories appeared as pure scientific context(61.8%), everyday context(22.2%), natural environmental context(7.7%), techno-industrial context(5.9%), and social context(2.4%) in the basic, supplementary and further level. Social context wasn't appeared in the supplementary level. In five elements of inquiry context, total elements appeared 7,139(85.5%) kfrequencies in the basic level and 691(8.1%) frequencies in the further level. However total elements appeared 529(6.4%) frequencies in the supplementary level. The kinds and frequencies of the elements for the inquiry context suggested in the basic level were more than those in the supplementary and in the further level. The social context was not appeared in the supplementary level. However five inquiry context elements were all appeared in the basic and further level.

Context Prediction Using Right and Wrong Patterns to Improve Sequential Matching Performance for More Accurate Dynamic Context-Aware Recommendation (보다 정확한 동적 상황인식 추천을 위해 정확 및 오류 패턴을 활용하여 순차적 매칭 성능이 개선된 상황 예측 방법)

  • Kwon, Oh-Byung
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.51-67
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    • 2009
  • Developing an agile recommender system for nomadic users has been regarded as a promising application in mobile and ubiquitous settings. To increase the quality of personalized recommendation in terms of accuracy and elapsed time, estimating future context of the user in a correct way is highly crucial. Traditionally, time series analysis and Makovian process have been adopted for such forecasting. However, these methods are not adequate in predicting context data, only because most of context data are represented as nominal scale. To resolve these limitations, the alignment-prediction algorithm has been suggested for context prediction, especially for future context from the low-level context. Recently, an ontological approach has been proposed for guided context prediction without context history. However, due to variety of context information, acquiring sufficient context prediction knowledge a priori is not easy in most of service domains. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a novel context prediction methodology, which does not require a priori knowledge, and to increase accuracy and decrease elapsed time for service response. To do so, we have newly developed pattern-based context prediction approach. First of ail, a set of individual rules is derived from each context attribute using context history. Then a pattern consisted of results from reasoning individual rules, is developed for pattern learning. If at least one context property matches, say R, then regard the pattern as right. If the pattern is new, add right pattern, set the value of mismatched properties = 0, freq = 1 and w(R, 1). Otherwise, increase the frequency of the matched right pattern by 1 and then set w(R,freq). After finishing training, if the frequency is greater than a threshold value, then save the right pattern in knowledge base. On the other hand, if at least one context property matches, say W, then regard the pattern as wrong. If the pattern is new, modify the result into wrong answer, add right pattern, and set frequency to 1 and w(W, 1). Or, increase the matched wrong pattern's frequency by 1 and then set w(W, freq). After finishing training, if the frequency value is greater than a threshold level, then save the wrong pattern on the knowledge basis. Then, context prediction is performed with combinatorial rules as follows: first, identify current context. Second, find matched patterns from right patterns. If there is no pattern matched, then find a matching pattern from wrong patterns. If a matching pattern is not found, then choose one context property whose predictability is higher than that of any other properties. To show the feasibility of the methodology proposed in this paper, we collected actual context history from the travelers who had visited the largest amusement park in Korea. As a result, 400 context records were collected in 2009. Then we randomly selected 70% of the records as training data. The rest were selected as testing data. To examine the performance of the methodology, prediction accuracy and elapsed time were chosen as measures. We compared the performance with case-based reasoning and voting methods. Through a simulation test, we conclude that our methodology is clearly better than CBR and voting methods in terms of accuracy and elapsed time. This shows that the methodology is relatively valid and scalable. As a second round of the experiment, we compared a full model to a partial model. A full model indicates that right and wrong patterns are used for reasoning the future context. On the other hand, a partial model means that the reasoning is performed only with right patterns, which is generally adopted in the legacy alignment-prediction method. It turned out that a full model is better than a partial model in terms of the accuracy while partial model is better when considering elapsed time. As a last experiment, we took into our consideration potential privacy problems that might arise among the users. To mediate such concern, we excluded such context properties as date of tour and user profiles such as gender and age. The outcome shows that preserving privacy is endurable. Contributions of this paper are as follows: First, academically, we have improved sequential matching methods to predict accuracy and service time by considering individual rules of each context property and learning from wrong patterns. Second, the proposed method is found to be quite effective for privacy preserving applications, which are frequently required by B2C context-aware services; the privacy preserving system applying the proposed method successfully can also decrease elapsed time. Hence, the method is very practical in establishing privacy preserving context-aware services. Our future research issues taking into account some limitations in this paper can be summarized as follows. First, user acceptance or usability will be tested with actual users in order to prove the value of the prototype system. Second, we will apply the proposed method to more general application domains as this paper focused on tourism in amusement park.

A Research to support implicit Context in Ubiquitous Computing Environment (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 추상적 Context 지원을 위한 연구 방안)

  • 차창호;김재훈
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2004.10b
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    • pp.613-615
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    • 2004
  • 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 가장 중요한 이슈중의 하나는 상황인지(Context-Aware)가 가능한 환경을 구축하는 것이다. Context-Aware 환경이 구축되면 주변의 상황을 감지하여 특정 어플리케이션을 실행한다거나, 시스템을 재구성하는 등의 일을 수행할 수 있다. 그동안 이런 상황인지가 가능한 환경을 Context-Aware 미들웨어를 통해 구현하려는 연구가 많이 수행되었다. Context-Aware 미들웨어를 구현하기 위해 무엇보다도 중요한 것은 실제 세계의 다양한 종류의 상황을 컴퓨팅 환경에 적용시키는 것이다. 그러나 현실 세계에서 Context의 종류는 거의 무한하다고 할 수 있다. 기술이 발전하게 되면서 인지 가능한 Context의 종류도 무한정 늘어나게 될 것이다 또한 실제 세계에서의 Context들은 추상적인 경우가 많이 있다. 그러나 Context가 추상적이라 해도 다른 Context 정보를 이용해서 구체화 할 수 있다. 이런 과정을 위해 Conte지들을 계층적으로 관리해야 할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 Context-Aware 미들웨어를 구현할 때 Context들의 이런 여러 가지 특성들을 고려해서 Context Type을 관리랄 수 있는 하나의 객체를 제안하고, 다른 방법들과 비교, 분석해 보았다.

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A Recommendation System using Dynamic Profiles and Relative Quantification

  • Lee, Se-Il;Lee, Sang-Yong
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.165-170
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    • 2007
  • Recommendation systems provide users with proper services using context information being input from many sensors occasionally under ubiquitous computing environment. But in case there isn't sufficient context information for service recommendation in spite of much context information, there can be problems of resulting in inexact result. In addition, in the quantification step to use context information, there are problems of classifying context information inexactly because of using an absolute classification course. In this paper, we solved the problem of lack of necessary context information for service recommendation by using dynamic profile information. We also improved the problem of absolute classification by using a relative classification of context information in quantification step. As the result of experiments, expectation preference degree was improved by 7.5% as compared with collaborative filtering methods using an absolute quantification method where context information of P2P mobile agent is used.

Types of Services and System Architectures on Context-Aware RFID Systems (컨텍스트 인지 RFID 시스템의 서비스 및 시스템 구조 유형)

  • Choi, Jong Myung;Kim, Eun Hoe
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.19-31
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    • 2008
  • Currently, RFID is receiving attention from the industry and the academy because it is considered as an enabling technology for ubiquitous computing, in particular context perception. In this paper, we survey the existing context-aware RFID systems and introduce three main issues in the systems - the context information, the context-aware services, and the context-aware RFID system architectures. We classify context information into six groups, the services into five context-aware service types, and the systems into four architecture styles. This study will help stakeholders such as customers and developers to understand their RFID systems and to develop new services.

Ubiquitous Architectural Framework for UbiSAS using Context Adaptive Rule Inference Engine

  • Yoo, Yoon-Sik;Huh, Jae-Doo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.243-246
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    • 2005
  • Recent ubiquitous computing environments increasingly impact on our lives using the current technologies of sensor network and ubiquitous services. In this paper, we propose ubiquitous architectural framework for ubiquitous sleep aid service(UbiSAS) in the subset of ubiquitous computing for refreshing of human's sleep. And we examine technical feasibility. Human can recover his health through refreshing sleep from fatigue. Ubiquitous architectural framework for UbiSAS in digital home offers agreeable sleeping environment and improves recovery from fatigue. So we present new concept of ubiquitous architectural framework dissolving stress. Specially, we apply context to context-aware framework module. This context is transferred to context adaptive inference engine which has service invocation function in intelligent agent module. Ubiquitous architectural framework for UbiSAS using context adaptive rule inference engine without user intervention is technical issue. That is to say, we should take sleep comfortably during our sleeping. And sensed information during sleeping is changed to context-aware information. This presents significant information in context adaptive rule inference engine for UbiSAS. This information includes all sleeping state during sleeping in context-aware computing technique. So we propose more effective and most suitable ubiquitous architectural framework using context adaptive rule inference engine for refreshing sleep in this paper.

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Implementation of an Application System using Middleware and Context Server for Handling Context-Awareness (상황인식 처리를 위한 미들웨어 및 컨텍스트 서버를 이용한 응용시스템의 구현)

  • Shim Choon-Bo;Tae Bong-Sub;Chang Jae-Woo;Kim Jeong-Ki;Park Seung-Min
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2006
  • 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.

Probability-annotated Ontology Model for Context Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Environment (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 상황 인식을 위한 확률 확장 온톨로지 모델)

  • Jung, Heon-Man;Lee, Jung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.239-248
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    • 2006
  • Current context-aware applications In ubiquitous computing environments make the assumption that the context they are dealing with is correct. However, in reality, both sensed and interpreted context informations are often uncertain or imperfect. In this paper, we propose a probability extension model to ontology-based model for rep resenting uncertain contexts and use Bayesian networks to resolve about uncertainty of context informations. The proposed model can support the development and operation of various context-aware services, which are required in the ubiquitous computing environment.

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Implementation of a Context-awareness based UoC Architecture for MANET (MANET에서 상황인식 기반의 UoC Architecture 구현)

  • Doo, Kyoung-Min;Lee, Kang-Whan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.1128-1133
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    • 2008
  • Context-aware computing has been attracting the attention as an approach to alleviating the inconvenience in human-computer interactions. This paper proposes a context-aware system architecture to be implemented on an UoC (Ubiquitous system on Chip). A new proposed technology of CRS (Context Recognition Switch) and DOS (Dynamic and Optimal Standard) based on Context-awareness system architecture with pre-processor, HPSP(High Performance Signal Processor) in this paper. And proposed a new algorithm using in network topology processor shows for Ubiquitous Computing System. implementing in UoC (Ubiquitous System on Chip) base on the IEEE 802.15.4 WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) standard. Also, This context-aware based UoC architecture has been developed to apply to mobile intelligent robots which would support human in a context-aware manner.