Opportunities and issues relating to middleware technologies for context-aware services

Author

Sameshima, Shigetoshi ; Kawamichi, Hiroaki ; Kato, Hiromitsu ; Sekiguchi, Takaaki ; Morikawa, Hiroyuki ; Takashio, Kazunori ; Tokuda, Hideyuki

Author_Institution

Syst. Dev. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Japan

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

5667

Abstract

Much business and technical attention is being paid to the potential for new services in a ubiquitous computing environment. One of the probable features of these sendees is ´context-awareness´, which is made possible by using information from the physical environment through sensors. This paper provides an overview of the opportunities for new sendees and the requirements for middleware technologies. The middleware sub-theme group in Yaoyorozu-project has been focusing on the technological aspects for middleware in the ubiquitous computing environment. This paper, in addition, discusses user-centric requirements and middleware technologies for them claimed in 2 years activities of this project based on the trans-disciplinary science.

Keywords

middleware; sensors; ubiquitous computing; Yaoyorozu-project; context-aware services; middleware technologies; transdisciplinary science; ubiquitous computing environment; user-centric requirements; Actuators; Computer networks; Context-aware services; Embedded computing; Home appliances; Information processing; Middleware; Pervasive computing; Physics computing; Ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8566-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401097

Filename

1401097