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A Development of Intelligent Context-Awareness Middleware

지능적 상황인지 미들웨어의 개발

  • 서주희 (University of Iowa 컴퓨터공학부) ;
  • 우종우 (국민대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
  • Received : 2012.09.14
  • Accepted : 2012.11.23
  • Published : 2012.11.30
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Abstract

Context-Awareness system provides an appropriate service to user by recognizing situation from surrounding environment. There are many successful studies on this framework, but still has some limitations. In this paper, we are describing a context-awareness middleware that can enhance the limitation of the previous approaches. We first defined a new concept of context-awareness environment as a social intelligence. This concept implies that intelligent objects can make relationships, can aware of situation from surrounding environment, and can collaborate to accomplish a given task. The significance of the study is as follows. First, the system is capable of multi context-awareness since it is designed with a structure that supports multiple lines of reasoning. Second, the system is capable of context planning by adapting AI planning mechanism. Third, the system is capable of making the intelligent objects as a group for collaboration, and provides adaptive service to user. We have developed a prototype of the system and tested with a virtual scenario.

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