Adaptive Semantic Middleware for Mobile Environments

— Context-awareness is considered a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of adaptable pervasive services. Rightfully describing and interpreting context, however, is a challenging issue. Semantic technologies are emerging as effective means to describe and reason about context information and to allow unknown entities to have a common understanding of context. However, the exploitation of semantic technologies for the design/deployment of context-aware applications in pervasive environments replete with heterogeneous devices requires to address several issues. In particular, a crucial aspect is how to support semanticbased service provisioning to mobile devices with limited capabilities. Novel solutions are required to transparently and dynamically adapt semantic-based service provisioning to the properties of different access devices. The paper proposes a middleware-level solution approach that exploits the visibility of two kinds of metadata (profiles and policies...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: JNW
• Authors: Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Toninelli
• Keywords: Adaptable Pervasive Services, JNW 2007, Provisioning, Semantic Technologies