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Descriptive Naming of Context Data Providers

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2005)

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Much context data comes from mobile, transient, and unreliable sources. Such resources are best specified by descriptive names identifying what data is needed rather than which source is to provide it. The design of descriptive names has important consequences, but until now little attention has been focused on this problem. We propose a descriptive naming system for providers of context data that provides more flexibility and power than previous naming systems by classifying data providers into “provider kinds” that are organized in an evolving hierarchy of subkinds and superkinds. New provider kinds can be inserted in the hierarchy not only as subkinds, but also as superkinds, of existing provider kinds. Our names can specify arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on data-source attributes, yielding expressive power not found in naming schemes based on attribute matching.

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  1. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, New York, 10532, USA

    Norman H. Cohen, Paul Castro & Archan Misra

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, 15213-3891, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Anind Dey

  2. Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, 21 Montevideo Street, 1618, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Boicho Kokinov

  3. Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

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  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, 04469, Orono, Maine, USA

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Cohen, N.H., Castro, P., Misra, A. (2005). Descriptive Naming of Context Data Providers. In: Dey, A., Kokinov, B., Leake, D., Turner, R. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11508373_9

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