PhD Qualifying Examination


"Context Processing and Management for Pervasive Computing"

By Mr. Chang Xu


Abstract:

Pervasive computing applications often need to be context-aware,
using various contexts such as location and time to adapt to the evolving
environment. Although the use of context-awareness represents a promising
approach to facilitating the construction of intelligent pervasive
computing applications, it also introduces various challenges in the
context processing and management field. This survey presents an analysis
of the challenges. We find that they are generally distributed over four
aspects: the acquisition of environmental contexts, the computation of
derivative contexts, the programming of context utilization, and the
management of context services. For each aspect, recent research work is
systematically discussed. The discussion is motivated using a healthcare
industry example.


Date:     		Friday, 17 December 2004

Time:                   10:00a.m.-12:00noon

Venue:                  Room 1402
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Dr. Shing-Chi Cheung (Supervisor)
                        Prof. Lionel Ni (Chairperson)
			Dr. Gary Chan
			Prof. Vincent Shen


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