Context-aware reasoning middle ware applied in the mobile environment
Jian Wu, Chunping Li, Yishu Miao, Shaoxu Song, Li Li, Qiang Ding · 2013
With the development of the mobile technology, smart phone plays a increasingly important role in people's life which makes it attractive to integrate the context-aware computing with the phone. Middleware is the most common method to support context-aware applications which use the context information to adapt interfaces to respond to user. But the relative weak computing power of the phone and the complex uncertain environment become the A chilles' heel for middleware systems on the mobile devices. This paper presents a Context-Aware Reasoning Middleware (CARM) which provides a solution by adopting the Bayesian network for uncertain inference and designing a mechanism to give the middleware an access to powerful computation ability. We implement the middleware system and shown that the CARM lets applications on the phone to gain the ability of becoming more context-aware.