Context awareness in Amit

Author

Adi, Asaf ; Biger, Ayelet ; Botzer, David ; Etzion, Opher ; Sommer, Ziva

Author_Institution

IBM Haifa Res. Lab., Israel

fYear

2003

fDate

6/25/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

166

Abstract

This paper presents the context awareness capabilities of Amit. Amit is a tool that includes both a language and an efficient run-time execution mechanism, aimed at reducing the complexity of active applications. It follows the observation that in many cases, there is a gap between current tools that enable to react to a single event (following the ECA: Event-Condition-Action paradigm), and the reality, in which reaction is relevant only in certain contexts in response to patterns over event histories. Context awareness in Amit takes into account event information, time and location to introduce the concept of situation. The concept of situation is an extension of the concept of composite event in its context awareness capability; it results in additional expressive power, flexibility and usability.

Keywords

context-sensitive languages; groupware; software tools; Amit tool; ECA; Event-Condition-Action paradigm; active application; active middleware technology; complexity reduction; composite event; context awareness; event information; event reaction; location information; reactive system; run time execution mechanism; time information; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Context awareness; Customer relationship management; Databases; Event detection; History; Power system management; Prototypes; Runtime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomic Computing Workshop. 2003. Proceedings of the

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1983-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACW.2003.1210216

Filename

1210216