Multi-device application middleware: leveraging the ubiquity of the Web with webinos

Abstract

The broad range of connected devices has turned the Internet into a ubiquitous concept. In addition to desktop and laptop PCs, the Internet currently connects mobile devices, home entertainment systems, and even in-car units. From this ubiquitous evolution towards sensor-rich devices, the opportunity arises for various new types of innovative software applications. However, alongside rises the issue of managing the increasing diversity of device characteristics and capabilities. As device fragmentation grows, application developers are facing the need to cover a wider variety of target devices and usage scenarios. In result, maintaining a viable balance between development costs and market coverage has turned out to be an important challenge when developing applications for a ubiquitous ecosystem. In this article, we present the webinos platform, a distributed Web runtime platform that leverages the Web for supporting self-adaptive cross-device applications. In order to enable the development of such immersive ubiquitous applications, we introduce and evaluate the concept of a context-aware federated overlay architecture.

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“…State of the art reasoners are capable of automatically compose user profiles by examining a user's behavior and data traffic contents (e.g., Google Now, Webinos platform, etc.) [26]. Alternatively, a widely-used approach is to rather focus on aggregating user context knowledge via user preference profiles.…”

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“…A prototype of the proposed platform has been implemented as part of the webinos open source project [4]. The project consortium involves over 30 partner companies, including device manufacturers, service providers, universities, and research organizations.…”