Extending Context Spaces Theory by Predicting Run-Time Context
Andrey Boytsov18
, Arkady Zaslavsky18
and Kåre Synnes18 
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Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå |
Abstract
Context awareness and prediction are important for pervasive computing systems. The recently developed theory of context spaces
addresses problems related to sensor data uncertainty and high-level situation reasoning. This paper proposes and discusses
componentized context prediction algorithms and thus extends the context spaces theory. This paper focuses on two questions:
how to plug-in appropriate context prediction techniques, including Markov chains, Bayesian reasoning and sequence predictors,
to the context spaces theory and how to estimate the efficiency of those techniques. The paper also proposes and presents
a testbed for testing a variety of context prediction methods. The results and ongoing implementation are also discussed.
Keywords context awareness - context prediction - context spaces theory - pervasive computing - Markov model - Bayesian network - branch prediction - neural network
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