A Middleware Infrastructure for Active Spaces

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Román;Christopher Hess;Renato Cerqueira;Anand Ranganathan;Roy H. Campbell;Klara Nahrstedt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The authors present an experimental middleware infrastructure called Gaia, which they have used to prototype the resource management ofýand to provide the user-oriented interfaces forýphysical spaces populated with network-enabled computing resources. The authors focus on physical spaces used for teaching; classrooms, offices, and lecture rooms. The system described is derived from a series of experiments starting in 1996. The authors show how, by applying the concepts of a conventional operating system to middleware, they can manage the resources, devices, and distributed objects in a room, building, or physical space, how a distributed extension of the modelýviewýcontroller that is use in personal computers simplifies and structures practical applications for these environments, and how, by driving context-sensitivity into its data storage mechanisms, the system can help satisfy the requirements for user-centricity and mobility.