Flexible Composition of Smart Device Services

Pervasive computing environments involve a variety of smart devices and home appliances. Communities of these devices form a ubiquitous information processing system to which the physical environment should provide an intuitive and flexible user interface. As each of these devices offers specific services, their number and variety make it difficult for users to control and monitor them all and tend to overcharge humans cognitive load. In this paper, we present an approach aimed at automatically composing device services, so that users can benefit from higher level services. We also ensure that context information such as users location, current needs and preferences is properly taken into account within the composition process. We believe that building mechanisms for synthesizing context-aware high level services is a mandatory step towards Ambient Intelligence.

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