Efstratiou, Christos Coordinated Adaptation for Adaptive Context-aware Applications. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, Lancaster University. (KAR id:38644)
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Abstract
The ability to adapt to change is critical to both mobile and context-aware applications.
requires support for coordinated adaptation. Speci?cally, the main argument
control to an entity that can receive state information from multiple applications and
for recon?guration of the adaptive behaviour and user involvement. Failure to support
insuf?cient support for user requirements.
systems and an analysis of the limitations of existing systems leads to the establishment
Speci?cally, adaptation control should be decoupled from the mechanisms implementing
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should allow modi?cations without the need for re-implementation of either the
This thesis presents the design of a platform derived from the aforementioned requirements.
Based on the particular requirements of adaptive context-aware applications a new policy
formalism. This policy language allows the speci?cation of policy rules where conditions
entities that represent duration (i.e. ?uents). A prototype implementation of this design
that the platform can support coordinated adaptation with acceptable performance cost.
Item Type: | Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) |
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Subjects: | T Technology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts |
Depositing User: | Tina Thompson |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2014 12:00 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 12:51 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38644 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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