Descriptive Naming of Context Data Providers

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 bee...

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Published inLecture notes in computer science pp. 112 - 125
Main Authors Cohen, Norman H., Castro, Paul, Misra, Archan
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Springer
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Applied sciences
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Context Data
Data Provider
Descriptive Naming
Direct Parent
Exact sciences and technology
Service Item
Software
Transient response
Context aware
Naming
Boolean logic
Transients
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Summary: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.
ISBN:9783540269243
354026924X
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11508373_9