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Geocon: A Middleware for Location-Aware Ubiquitous Applications

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Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2016)

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Abstract

A core functionality of any location-aware ubiquitous system is storing, indexing, and retrieving information about entities that are commonly involved in these scenarios, such as users, places, events and other resources. The goal of this work is to design and provide the prototype of a service-oriented middleware, called Geocon, which can be used by mobile application developers to implement such functionality. In order to represent information about users, places, events and resources of mobile location-aware applications, Geocon defines a basic metadata model that can be extended to match most application requirements. The middleware includes a geocon-service for storing, searching and selecting metadata about users, resources, events and places of interest, and a geocon-client library that allows mobile applications to interact with the service through the invocation of local methods. The paper describes the metadata model and the components of the Geocon middleware. A prototype of Geocon is available at https://github.com/SCAlabUnical/Geocon.

This work has been partially supported by Project PON04a2_D DICET-INMOTO-ORCHESTRA funded by MIUR.

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  1. DIMES, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

    Loris Belcastro, Giulio Di Lieto, Fabrizio Marozzo & Paolo Trunfio

  2. Helmes AS, Tallinn, Estonia

    Marco Lackovic

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  1. Carlos III University of Madrid, Getafe, Spain

    Jesus Carretero

  2. Carlos III University of Madrid, Getafe, Spain

    Javier Garcia-Blas

  3. Mathematical Support for Computers, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

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  4. Research Computing Center (RCC), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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  5. Research Computing Center (RCC), Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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  6. E.U. Politécnica, Universidad de Extremaddura, Cáceres, Spain

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  7. Ingenieria de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Extremaddura, Cáceres, Spain

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  8. Universitat Politécnica de València, Valencia, Spain

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  9. Distributed and Parallel Systems Group, Institute for Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria

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  10. Carlos III University of Madrid, Getafe, Spain

    José Daniel Garcia Sánchez

  11. UCD School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Alexey L. Lastovetsky

  12. University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy

    Fabrizio Marozzo

  13. Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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  14. Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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  16. Informatik 10 - Rechnertechnik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Josef Weidendorfer

  17. High Performance Computing Center (HLRS), Stuttgart, Germany

    José Gracia

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Belcastro, L., Di Lieto, G., Lackovic, M., Marozzo, F., Trunfio, P. (2016). Geocon: A Middleware for Location-Aware Ubiquitous Applications. In: Carretero, J., et al. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10049. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49956-7_19

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