Context-dependent task computing in pervasive environment

Hongbo Ni, Xingshe Zhou, Daqing Zhang, Ngoh Lek Heng

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Abstract

Pervasive computing environments need to exhibit highly adaptive behavior to meet the changing personal requirements and operational context of environment. Recently, task computing (TC) paradigm has gained acceptance as the choice computing model for pervasive computing environment. One of the key components of TC is a task model that provides an adequate high-level description of user-oriented tasks. This paper presents a novel context-sensitive task modeling approach capable of supporting complex, user-oriented task definitions, and proposes an algorithm to discover a task and a method to execute it. This work is motivated by the fact that whilst current TC systems allow users to interact with their ambient environments in terms of high level tasks, existing task definitions are still relatively simple, and do not include user-centric and environmental contextual information in the task definition. This paper elaborates the proposed task model through a smart home application example to illustrate steps in context-dependent task modeling, service provisioning and resource organization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiquitous Computing Systems - Third International Symposium, UCS 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages119-128
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540462872, 9783540462873
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event3rd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, UCS 2006 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 11 Oct 200613 Oct 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4239 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference3rd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, UCS 2006
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period11/10/0613/10/06

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