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A Survey of Context-Aware Pervasive Applications: From Development Support to Quality Assurance
PhD Qualifying Examination Title: "A Survey of Context-Aware Pervasive Applications: From Development Support to Quality Assurance" by Mr. Yepang Liu Abstract: Pervasive applications aim to provide unobtrusive and reliable computing services by seamlessly integrating devices into end users’ everyday life. As an important branch of pervasive computing, context-aware applications continuously sense environmental changes and automatically adapt their behaviors. In recent years, such kind of computing paradigm is becoming more and more popular with the proliferation of versatile mobile devices and increasing deployment of pervasive infrastructures. However, due to the distributed nature and heterogeneity of context sources, building and maintaining a context-aware application is a non-trivial task. Researchers have identified quite a few critical challenges for systematic engineering of these applications, ranging from modeling to quality assurance. In this survey, we focus on reviewing existing research works related to development support and quality assurance. For development support, we will introduce some famous middleware infrastructures, development toolkits as well as typical design strategies. For quality assurance, we will cover context quality enhancement, testing and software model checking approaches. In the final section of this survey, we will point out some promising research directions in this area. Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2012 Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm Venue: Room 3501 lifts 25/26 Committee Members: Prof. Shing-Chi Cheung (Supervisor) Dr. Charles Zhang (Chairperson) Dr. Qiong Luo Dr. Raymong Wong **** ALL are Welcome ****