Context-Awareness in Task Automation Services by Distributed Event Processing

Abstract

Abstract. Everybody has to coordinate several tasks everyday, usually in a manual manner. Recently, the concept of Task Automation Services has been introduced to automate and personalize the task coordination problem. Several user centered platforms and applications have arisen in the last years, that let their users configure their very own automations based on third party services. In this paper, we propose a new system architecture for Task Automation Services in a heterogeneous mobile, smart devices, and cloud services environment. Our architecture is based on the novel idea to employ distributed Complex Event Processing to implement innovative mixed execution profiles. The major advantage of the approach is its ability to incorporate context-awareness and real-time coordination in Task Automation Services.

A Personal Agent Architecture for Task Automation in the Web of Data. Bringing intelligence to everyday tasks

“…Although some of its features and requirements are introduced and even addressed in the Reference Architecture, the execution of automation rules with a Mixed Execution Profile requires the definition of coordination algorithms to orchestrate the exchange of command between the central TAS and the mobile TAS, or more precisely between the execution planners of both TAS. A first approach to this concept was presented by Coronado et al (2014a). Moreover, the concept of Mixed Execution Profile offers several advantages to the industry that could drastically reduce the bandwidth usage, or allow users to have automations event in areas without Internet coverage.…”

“…For instance, depending on the user location and event venue, the reminder will appear soon enough to allow the user to attend the meeting on time (Coronado et al, 2014b).…”