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Federation and Sharing in the Context Marketplace

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Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2007)

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The emerging pervasive computing services will eventually lead to the establishment of a context marketplace, where context consumers will be able to obtain the information they require by a plethora of context providers. In this marketplace, several aspects need to be addressed, such as: support for flexible federation among context stakeholders enabling them to share data when required; efficient query handling based on navigational, spatial or semantic criteria; performance optimization, especially when management of mobile physical objects is required; and enforcement of privacy and security protection techniques concerning the sensitive context information maintained or traded. This paper presents mechanisms that address the aforementioned requirements. These mechanisms establish a robust spatially-enhanced distributed context management framework and have already been designed and carefully implemented.

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  1. Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Carriganore, Waterford, Ireland

    Carsten Pils & Tom Pfeifer

  2. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechneiou Str, 157-73 Zographou, Athens, Greece

    Ioanna Roussaki, Nicolas Liampotis & Nikos Kalatzis

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Pils, C., Roussaki, I., Pfeifer, T., Liampotis, N., Kalatzis, N. (2007). Federation and Sharing in the Context Marketplace. In: Hightower, J., Schiele, B., Strang, T. (eds) Location- and Context-Awareness. LoCA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4718. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75160-1_8

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