The book addresses the impact of ambient intelligence, particularly its user-centric context-awareness requirement on data management strategies and solutions. Techniques of conceptualizing, capturing, protecting, modelling, and querying context information, as well as context-aware data management application are discussed, making the book is an essential reference for computer scientists, information scientists and industrial engineers.
Table of contents
1 Context-Aware Data Management Towards Ambient Intelligence
2 Modeling Context
3 Addressing Context Uncertainty
4 Acquiring Context
5 Protecting Context Privacy
6 Querying Context
7 Detecting Context Events
8 Energy Management in Context Querying
9 Context Query Efficiency vs. Expense
10 Context-Aware Preference Querying
11 Analyzing Sensitivity of Answer Ordering Change
12 Explaining and Scrubbing Context-Aware Query Results
13 Context-based Information Re-finding
14 A Context-Aware Ad-Hoc Meeting Plan Program
15 Context-Aware Learning
16 Context-Aware Management of Bilingual Aviation MRO Task Cards
17 FireVGuide: A Context-Aware Fire Victims Guide
References
Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
