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There has been a move of context-aware systems into safety-critical domains including healthcare, emergency scenarios, and disaster recovery. These systems are often distributed and deployed on resource-bounded devices. Therefore, developing formal techniques for modelling and designing context-aware systems, verifying requirements and ensuring functional correctness are major challenges. We present a framework for the formal representation and verification of resource-bounded context-aware systems. We give ontological representation of contexts, translate ontologies to a set of Horn clause rules, based on these rules we build multi-agent context-aware systems and encode them into Maude specification, we then verify interesting properties of such systems using the Maude LTL model checker.
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Rakib, A., Faruqui, R.U. (2013). A Formal Approach to Modelling and Verifying Resource-Bounded Context-Aware Agents. In: Vinh, P.C., Hung, N.M., Tung, N.T., Suzuki, J. (eds) Context-Aware Systems and Applications. ICCASA 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_9
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