Composition of context-aware services using policies and models

Yang, K.; Ou, S.; Liotta, A.; Henning, I.

Abstract

This paper presents a proof-of-the-concept of a novel means to develop in an easy way, to execute in a more pervasive way and to maintain in a more sustainable way context-aware services. The essence of this approach is the integration of the policy-based management (PBM) technique and the MDA (model-driven architecture) technique. The presence of policies grants context-aware services the high flexibility and adaptability as their nature, whereas the introduction of MDA for context-aware service information model fundamentally solves the information model puzzle of current PBM. MDA's middleware-neutral feature also benefits the smooth evolution of context-aware services as a kind of software. The preliminary case study has proved the positive feasibility of this approach.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: GLOBECOM '05. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005
• Start Date: Nov 28, 2005
• End Date: Dec 2, 2005
• Online Publication Date: Jan 23, 2006
• Publication Date: 2005
• Deposit Date: Dec 3, 2019
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Pages: 1059-1063
• Series ISSN: 1930-529X
• Book Title: GLOBECOM '05. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2005
• ISBN: 0-7803-9414-3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2005.1577799
• Keywords: telecommunication services, middleware, ubiquitous computing, computer network management
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1995952