Context-aware computing / Ling Feng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feng, Ling, author.

Contributor:

Tsinghua University Press.

Series:

Advances in computer science ; Volume 3.

Advances in Computer Science ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Context-aware computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book addresses the impact of ambient intelligence, particularly its user-centric context-awareness requirement on data management strategies and solutions. Techniques of conceptualizing, capturing, protecting, modelling, and querying context information, as well as context-aware data management application are discussed, making the book is an essential reference for computer scientists, information scientists and industrial engineers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface / Feng, Ling

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Fundamental

1. Context-Aware Data Management Toward Ambient Intelligence

Part II: Context

2. Modeling Context

3. Addressing Context Uncertainty

4. Acquiring Context

5. Protecting Context Privacy

Part III: Context Awareness

6. Querying Context

7. Detecting Context Events

8. Energy Management in Context Querying

9. Context Query Efficiency Versus Expense

Part IV: Context-Aware Data Management

10. Context-Aware Preference Querying

11. Analyzing Sensitivity of Answer Ordering Change

12. Explaining and Scrubbing Context-Aware Query Results

13. Context-Based Information Refinding

Part V: Context-Aware Applications

14. A Context-Aware Ad-Hoc Meeting Planner Program

15. Context-Aware Learning

16. Context-Aware Management of Bilingual Aviation MRO Task Cards

17. FireVGuide: A Context-Aware Fire Victims Guide

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 6, 2018).

ISBN:

9783110555691

3110555697

OCLC:

1020031101