Simulation Model for Self-Adaptive Applications in Pervasive Computing

In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in Pervasive Computing many applications do actually need to monitor the physical environment in which they are deployed. Monitoring the environment often includes gathering information about the people working or living in this environment. Applications that self-adapt to changes in the monitored environment are known as context-aware. As context-aware applications need environment sensor data, testing these applications usually require deployment at a physical test location, often in a research laboratory. Our project aims to design a simulation model of contexts as a means to test the context logic of a context-aware application, by allowing sensor data to be produced from a description of contexts, i.e. the location and activities of people, thereby allowing initial testing of a contextaware application with...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DEXAW
• Authors: Markus C. Huebscher, Julie A. McCann
• Keywords: Applications Need Environment, Context-aware Application, Database, DEXAW 2004, Physical Environment