Title :
Distributed Context Management in Collaborative Environment
Author :
El Ghayam, Yassine ; Erradi, Mohammed
Author_Institution :
SIME Res. Lab., Mohammed V Souissi Univ., Rabat, Morocco
Abstract :
The context-awareness management is a challenging task in a distributed collaborative environment. This management implies the monitoring of the context information of collaborative users while adapting the responses of their requests according to their context. In this work, we distribute the context adaptation task among several entities by adopting the mobile agent paradigm. This leads to a distributed solution for context management. The context adaptation is tackled by using a decision tree-based approach. A context-aware selection algorithm is given to select the appropriate terminal where the context-awareness tasks will be made. An e-health application is used through the paper to illustrate the suggested approach.
Keywords :
decision trees; medical computing; mobile agents; ubiquitous computing; collaborative user information; context adaptation task; context-aware selection algorithm; context-awareness management; decision tree-based approach; distributed collaborative environment; distributed context management; e-health application; mobile agent paradigm; Availability; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Context; Decision trees; Mobile agents; Mobile communication;
Conference_Titel :
New Technologies of Distributed Systems (NOTERE), 2011 11th Annual International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0729-2
DOI :
10.1109/NOTERE.2011.5957991