TY - GEN
T1 - Smart environments
T2 - NSF Workshop on Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, IMWS 2001
AU - Weissman, Jon
AU - Zhang, Zhi Li
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - With the explosive expansion of the Internet as the global information infrastructure, coupled with rapid advances in wireless technologies, a new vision for computing is emerging. A seamless, anywhere, anytime, untethered, pervasive computing paradigm is touted as the next major paradigm shift in the way we compute and communicate. In order to realize this vision, the complexity of this environment must be masked from its consumers (users) and producers alike (service providers). We believe that a middleware infrastructure that provides appropriate high-level abstractions for both users and service-providers is needed. Such a middleware infrastructure must allow powerful services to be easily deployed and permit users to interact with such services in a personalized, yet effortless manner. In this position paper, we introduce the notion of a “smart service” – services with which users can dynamically interact in an automated and personalized manner, and can be composed to form “smart environments.” Smart environments present an integrated view of services to the user to enable much higher-level, domain-specific interactions and to support user customization. We present a system architecture for building smart services and smart environments, and the middleware research challenges that must be addressed to realize this architecture and the core abstractions.
AB - With the explosive expansion of the Internet as the global information infrastructure, coupled with rapid advances in wireless technologies, a new vision for computing is emerging. A seamless, anywhere, anytime, untethered, pervasive computing paradigm is touted as the next major paradigm shift in the way we compute and communicate. In order to realize this vision, the complexity of this environment must be masked from its consumers (users) and producers alike (service providers). We believe that a middleware infrastructure that provides appropriate high-level abstractions for both users and service-providers is needed. Such a middleware infrastructure must allow powerful services to be easily deployed and permit users to interact with such services in a personalized, yet effortless manner. In this position paper, we introduce the notion of a “smart service” – services with which users can dynamically interact in an automated and personalized manner, and can be composed to form “smart environments.” Smart environments present an integrated view of services to the user to enable much higher-level, domain-specific interactions and to support user customization. We present a system architecture for building smart services and smart environments, and the middleware research challenges that must be addressed to realize this architecture and the core abstractions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33645593348
SN - 3540002898
SN - 9783540002895
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 90
EP - 105
BT - Developing an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems - NSF Workshop IMWS 2001, Revised Papers
A2 - Makki, S.A.M.
A2 - Konig-Ries, Birgitta
A2 - Makki, Kia
A2 - Pissinou, Niki
A2 - Scheuermann, Peter
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 15 October 2001 through 15 October 2001
ER -