Context-Aware Data Management- An Object-Oriented Version Model (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783836429382)

Context-awareness is a requirement of many modern applications. While several solutions exist to gather, represent and process context, very few provide management of context-aware data. In this book, a two-dimensional version model is presented, that allows managing context-dependent variants, while, at the same time, keeping track of the revision history. Queries are processed based on a matching algorithm that uses the current context of the system to select the best object. As an application of this extended database, a content management system has been designed and implemented. This Extensible Content Management System (XCM) provides a flexible platform for web engineering, built on the separation of content, structure, view and presentation. Metadata about these concepts is managed within the extended database and therefore all aspects of a web system become context-aware. Using XCM, a mobile tourist information system (EdFest) was developed. EdFest offers multi-channel interaction through standard web channels and a novel paper-based channel. This book is targeted at developers and researchers in mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive computing as well as in web engineering.

Author: Michael Grossniklaus
ISBN-10: 3836429381
ISBN-13: 9783836429382
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2007
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d