Title :
SmartContacts: a large scale social context service discovery system
Author :
Liu, Yong ; Connelly, Kay
Author_Institution :
Indiana Univ.
Abstract :
The proliferation of cell phones has led to an ever increasing number of inappropriate interruptions. SmartContacts provides a solution to this problem by empowering the caller to make better, more informed decisions about the appropriateness of making a call by providing him/her information about the receiver´s context. SmartContacts also demonstrates the usefulness and feasibility of a large scale service discovery mechanism for a ubiquitous computing environment. It supports automatic service discovery over the Internet in real time and on demand. It adopts a purely decentralized service organization structure, which provides better scalability and fault tolerance than most of the existing service discovery systems
Keywords :
Internet; cellular radio; fault tolerant computing; ubiquitous computing; Internet; SmartContacts; cell phone; decentralized service organization structure; fault tolerance; large scale social context service discovery system; ubiquitous computing; Cellular phones; Context; Context-aware services; Fault tolerant systems; Humans; Information retrieval; Large-scale systems; Scalability; Ubiquitous computing; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. PerCom Workshops 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2520-2
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.127