This thesis develops a generalized approach for decoupling how a context model is
defined and executed from how context-aware data is acquired and managed within a
given middleware system. Decoupling the model specification from the data will likely
provide more avenues of context-aware investigations due to an increased flexibility in
the choice of a middleware system for handling context data. We provide a detailed
description of the approach developed for this decoupling task, called Inspect, Adapt,
Model, and Integrate (IAMI). By engaging the steps we show that a context model need
not be specifically tied to a given context-aware middleware. This successful decoupling
will likely add to the future development of context-aware systems by allowing
researchers to build upon existing frameworks as opposed to repeatedly engaging in
ground-up development. Moreover, we submit that this decoupling is important in that
the number of possible ways of representing and expressing a context model is
potentially infinite, but the choice of context-aware middleware systems is limited.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/865 |
| Date | 15 April 2008 |
| Creators | Dahlem, David C.P. |
| Contributors | Weber, Jens H. |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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