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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"context-aware system"”.
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A holistic intelligent environment quality traceability approach for user-centric context-aware systems
Context-awareness is increasingly an essential component of modern software systems. For example, in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and the Internet of Things (IoT), context-awareness can be applied to deliver life-critical systems that empower users by reducing their dependence on others. …
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The ContexTable: Building and Testing an Intelligent, Context-Aware Kitchen Table
… of this thesis was to design and evaluate The ContexTable, a context-aware system built into a kitchen table. After establishing the current status of the field of context-aware systems and the hurdles and problems being faced, a functioning prototype system was designed and built. The …
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A reactive behavioral system for the intelligent room
… commands, such as body language, behavior, and context, just as another human would. This thesis presents ReBa, a context-aware system to provide the IE with this type of complex behavior, in reaction to user activity.
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AppaaS: Provisioning of Context-Aware Mobile Applications as a Service
… and App Store. There is a demand though for a system that can elevate the momentum of context-aware mobile applications, where an application’s behavior is customized according to context information. This thesis proposes a context-aware system that provides mobile Applications as a Service …
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Policy-based approach for context-aware systems
… everyday life. One important aspect of pervasive systems is context-awareness. Context-aware systems are those that can adapt their behaviours according to the current context. Context-aware applications are being integrated into our everyday activity aspects such as: health care, smart homes and …
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Context Aware Drivers' Behaviour Detection System for VANET
… and improvement in, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that focus on road safety applications. As a promising technology and a core component of ITS, Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) have emerged as an application of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET), which use Dedicated Short Range …
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Context-aware Personal Learning Environment
… none of the existing PLE architectures have context-aware systems embedded within their architecture. There is no intelligence in these architectures to filter the e-resources and to predict the user need. In addition, the current PLE architectures are not dynamic; it cannot adopt the user …
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Vision-based context-aware assistance for minimally invasive surgery.
Context-aware surgical system is a system that can collect surgical data and analyze the operating environment to guide responses for surgeons at any given time, which improves the efficiency, augment the performance and lowers the risk of minimally invasive surgery (MIS). It allows various …
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Self-adaptation via concurrent multi-action evaluation for unknown context
Context-aware computing has been attracting growing attention in recent years. Generally, there are several ways for a context-aware system to select a course of action for a particular change of context. One way is for the system developers to encompass all possible context changes in the domain …
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Distributed Cognitive RAT Selection in 5G Heterogeneous Networks: A Machine Learning Approach
… Technologies (RAT) requires novel and creative context-aware system designs. The association and routing decisions, in the context of single-RAT or multi-RAT connections, need to be optimized to efficiently exploit the benefits of the architecture. However, the high computational complexity …
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A user-centred design framework for context-aware computing
… and promising application areas of mobile context-aware computing have emerged in recent years, such as tourist guides and navigation systems for visually impaired people. However, many researchers express grave concerns about the limited appreciation of human and social issues in design: …
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DYNAMIC ONTOLOGIES THAT ENCODE AND MANAGE RELEVANCE IN CONTEXT AWARE SYSTEMS
Context aware systems, to date, tend to fall into one of two categories: domain specific or generic across multiple domains. Domain specific systems are single-use instances – that is, establishing the ability to manage context for an additional domain necessitates the creation of an additional …
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A Software Development Environment for Building Context-Aware Systems for Family Technology
… a development environment suitable for creating context-aware applications and systems specific to home and family living conditions. After outlining the history of context-aware applications and the challenges that face family-centric systems in this field, a development environment was …
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Context Aware Pre-Crash System for Vehicular ad hoc Networks Using Dynamic Bayesian Model
… aim has been supported by Intelligent Transport Systems, offering safety systems and providing an intelligent driving environment. The development of wireless communications and mobile ad hoc networks has led to improvements in intelligent transportation systems heightening these systems’ safety. …
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New Perspectives on Modelling and Control for Next Generation Intelligent Transport Systems
… areas all within an Intelligent Transportation System context. The first problem we discuss considers models that make beneficial use of the large amounts of data generated in the context of traffic systems. We use a Markov chain model to do this, where important data can be taken into account …
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Investigating Tafheet as a Unique Driving Style Behaviour
… For this purpose, intelligent transportation systems are being developed to reduce the number of fatalities on the road. A plethora of work has been undertaken on the detection of different styles of behaviour such as fatigue and drunken behaviour of the drivers; however, owing to complexity …
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A Multilayer Framework for Quality of Context in Context-Aware Systems
Context-aware systems use context information to decide what adaptation actions to perform in response to changes in their environment. Depending on applications, context information includes physical context (e.g. temperature and location), user context (e.g. user preferences and user activity), …
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A Distributed Architecture for Computing Context in Mobile Devices
Context-aware computing aims at making mobile devices sensitive to the social and physical settings in which they are used. A necessary requirement to achieve this goal is to enable those devices to establish a shared understanding of the desired settings. Establishing a shared understanding …
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Ubiquitous Robotics System for Knowledge-based Auto-configuration System for Service Delivery within Smart Home Environments
… that this is not always practical. Moreover, systems need to facilitate the deployment process and cope with any changes in the target environment after deployment. Maintaining complex smart home systems throughout their lifecycle entails considerable resources and effort. These challenges …