Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
7-2005
Abstract
Much context data comes from mobile, transient, and unreliable sources. Such resources are best specified by descriptive names identifying what data is needed rather than which source is to provide it. The design of descriptive names has important consequences, but until now little attention has been focused on this problem. We propose a descriptive naming system for providers of context data that provides more flexibility and power than previous naming systems by classifying data providers into “provider kinds” that are organized in an evolving hierarchy of subkinds and superkinds. New provider kinds can be inserted in the hierarchy not only as subkinds, but also as superkinds, of existing provider kinds. Our names can specify arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on data-source attributes, yielding expressive power not found in naming schemes based on attribute matching.
Discipline
Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
Modeling and using context: 5th international and interdisciplinary conference, CONTEXT 2005, Paris, July 5-8: Proceedings
Volume
3554
First Page
112
Last Page
125
ISBN
9783540318903
Identifier
10.1007/11508373_9
Publisher
Springer
City or Country
Berlin
Citation
COHEN, Norman H.; CASTRO, Paul; and MISRA, Archan.
Descriptive Naming of Context Data Providers. (2005). Modeling and using context: 5th international and interdisciplinary conference, CONTEXT 2005, Paris, July 5-8: Proceedings. 3554, 112-125.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/688
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1007/11508373_9