Existing challenges and new opportunities in context-aware systems

Abstract

Merging the features of Cloud computing, autonomic computing, pervasive computing, and mobile computing are now at its initial stage but the effort is visibly showing the benefits of these paradigms. A large number of applications can take advantage of this, including healthcare, traffic control, and social network applications. However, these applications are complex by nature and introduce several challenges of their own, for example, reliable sensing, accurate context recognition, scalability, security, and the challenge of dealing with previously unforeseen side-effects of adaptations. These challenges can be surmounted when researchers of diverse background come together and provide different views of the same problems and help each other understand the complex relationships between contending ideas. The Casemans 2012 workshop opens the necessary platform for researchers of ubiquitous computing, autonomic computing, and similar fields to address these issues.

PERVCOMPRA-SE: A Pervasive Computing Reference Architecture from a Software Engineering Perspective

“…A unified architecture is one of the fundamental research challenges for PervComp systems [1] where a rapid and common architecture is much required. Ashraf and Khan [2] reported 26 challenges that are either not addressed or partially addressed.…”

“…The initiatives to provide a unified architecture are still very limited and focus on the IoT domain primarily 1 . It is worth mentioning here that there is already an existing RA for the IoT called IoT-A [4] since 2013; however, the IEEE Standards Association started another project to set architectural framework standards for the IoT domain.…”

“…Once an FRA is implemented as a concrete architecture it becomes an immature PRA, which encourages others to adopt it in more implementations and to transform it finally into a PRA. 1 Some researchers label IoT as a branch from the PervComp and some others use the terminology to refer to the pervasive computing domain.…”