Context-Aware Computing

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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Fundamental
Chapter 1 Context-Aware Data Management Toward Ambient Intelligence

Part II: Context
Chapter 2 Modeling Context
Chapter 3 Addressing Context Uncertainty
Chapter 4 Acquiring Context
Chapter 5 Protecting Context Privacy

Part III: Context Awareness
Chapter 6 Querying Context
Chapter 7 Detecting Context Events
Chapter 8 Energy Management In Context Querying
Chapter 9 Context Query Efficiency Versus Expense

Part IV: Context-Aware Data Management
Chapter 10 Context-Aware Preference Querying
Chapter 11 Analyzing Sensitivity Of Answer Ordering Change
Chapter 12 Explaining And Scrubbing Context-Aware Query Results
Chapter 13 Context-Based Information Refinding

Part V: Context-Aware Applications
Chapter 14 A Context-Aware Ad-Hoc Meeting Planner Program
Chapter 15 Context-Aware Learning
Chapter 16 Context-Aware Management Of Bilingual Aviation Mro Task Cards
Chapter 17 Firevguide: A Context-Aware Fire Victims Guide