Infraware: um middleware de suporte a aplicações sensíveis ao contexto

• Autor(a) principal: Pessoa, Rodrigo Mantovaneli
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6361
• topic: Ciência da Computação; Middleware; Ontologias (Recuperação da informação); Inferência (Lógica); 004

New mobile computing technologies and the increasing use of portable devices make computers more present on human life activities with each passing day. This favors the rising of a new computing paradigm: the Ubiquitous Computing. In this scenario, context-aware mobile applications stand out among others, improving user interaction by supporting new adaptive behavior according to context changes. Recent research points out the need for developing specialized middleware infrastructure for the management of dynamic contextual information. These new infrastructures provide the adequate facilities for the development of a large range of contextaware mobile applications, in several domains. This work proposes the design of a middleware to support the development and execution of context-aware applications. The architecture is defined by using relevant functional requirements of this new class of applications. Related aspects of the middleware s main components are presented. This work also presents the design and implementation of an essential component of the proposed middleware, responsable for the inference of new context information and context perception.