Designing a Quality-Aware Discovery Mechanism for Acquiring Context Information

  • Authors:
  • Maria Chantzara;Miltiades Anagnostou;Efstathios Sykas

  • Affiliations:
  • NTUA, GREECE;NTUA, GREECE;NTUA, GREECE

  • Venue:
  • AINA '06 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The alignment of the context information with the service objectives facilitates the successful provisioning of context-aware services. Moreover, the fact that context may come from transient and/or unreliable sources needs consideration. False or stale context can dramatically affect the decisions and the actions taken by context-aware services. This paper presents an approach for evaluating and selecting the information to be used by context-aware services that takes into account the quality of information, and automatically adapts to any source changes and failures. The proposed quality-aware discovery of context information sources allows services to be ported easily to environments with different sets of sources.