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


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