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In agricultural processes, many works may need to be automated, because those are very hard labors or time-consuming jobs for farmers. Workflow technologies, which have successfully been a good model for a service automation in various computing environments, can be used as a possible service automation model in agriculture. A workflow for u-agriculture may need various contexts sensed from real sensor networks for service automation. Recently, many researches have applied workflow technologies into the various fields such as smart home, u-health care, u-city, u-port, and u-agriculture. However, many current workflow service have difficulty to control work processes and execute services according to context information in u-agricultural environment. This paper proposes a context-aware service model for u-agriculture, which is based on workflows and is aimed at supporting smart workflow services based on ubiquitous sensor networks in u-agriculture. With the proposed context-aware service model, developers can easily integrate various service demands into a service workflow, and can easily develop a context-aware workflow service for u-agriculture. Therefore, the proposed service model can be greatly helpful in the development of smart applications or the work automation in the fields of u-agriculture.
This research was supported by the MKE(Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA(Institute of Information Technology Advancement)” (IITA-2009-(C1090-0902-0047)).
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Cho, Y., Moon, J., Yoe, H. (2010). A Context-Aware Service Model Based on Workflows for u-Agriculture. In: Taniar, D., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Pardede, E., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010. ICCSA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6018. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12179-1_23
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