A Modular Architecture for Context Sensing

  • Authors:
  • Julian Grigera;Andres Fortier;Gustavo Rossi;Silvia Gordillo

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina;Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina/ Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain;Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina/ CONICET;Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina/ CICPBA

  • Venue:
  • AINAW '07 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Due to the technological evolution, context-aware computing is slowly moving from dream to reality. These applications heavily rely in sensing the user's environment and abstracting this information to perform high-level adaptation. While technological issues have been mostly addressed, sensing software is usually built in a handcrafted way, which turns into building ad-hoc solutions for every new application. To solve this problem, we consider that context sensing should be regarded as a software engineering problem and not a simple implementation issue. In this paper we present a software architecture for dealing with context-sensing aspects in a high-level modular way. We show that by using this approach, evolution issues typical of mobile wireless software can be managed easily by replacing or composing software modules without compromising performance.