GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-97-18
Title:
Applying Dynamic Integration as a Software Infrastructure for
Context-Aware Computing
Authors:
Gregory D. Abowd
Anind K. Dey
Andrew Wood
Abstract:
Much of the software engineering literature examines techniques and
practices that help us to build systems that we have been building for many
years already. While there is merit in seeking ways to raise the floor of
software engineering practice, we also have an obligation to research
software design issues that push the envelope of existing computing
technology. One of the features of future interactive computing
environments is that they will provide context-aware services that
leverage off of knowledge of a person's physical state and surrounding
environment. With the proliferation of network-based computing services
that are a characteristic of an emerging ubiquitous computing society, there
is a real issue with providing a software infrastructure that will support
context-aware services. In this paper, we examine software engineering
work on component integration and introduce a prototype infrastructure
that provides a dynamic and scalable context-aware computing
environment. We will describe how we have applied this component
infrastructure to build a futuristic personal information management system
involving automatic cooperation between desktop, network and mobile
services.
Keywords:
Ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, context-aware computing, software
integration, personal information management
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