Sociology Paradigms for Dynamic Integration of Devices into a Context-Aware System

Abstract

Ubiquitous and mobile context-aware computing is an essential component of the smart cities infrastructure. Widely available wireless networks, the maturity level of distributed computing and the increasing number of mobile devices have significantly influenced the human experience with computing. In the present paper, we discuss the need for a model that will be able to represent a formal structure of a context-aware system in a device. The core functionality of the model is expected to expose context-aware behaviour and support dynamic integration of mobile devices and context-aware behaviour. The major contribution of this work is to identify deficiencies of the existing model which is using the notions from sociology such as Role, Ownership and Responsibility.

Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Computing Modelling: Study of Devices Integration in Their Environment

“…Per its definition, ubiquitous computing appears to be transparent and not perceived in the environment, thus needing to foresee human actions and act proactively to offer expected assistance (Schilit, Hilbert & Trevor, 2002) in all the contexts, interlacing themselves into people's everyday lives with the objective to be indistinguishable from it (Weiser, Mark 1991). More so, this requires the implementation of context-aware, or pervasive computing, to define and store contextual information in a machine-understandable way (Kamberov et al, 2017).…”

“…Henceforth, provide a detailed analysis on the applicability of the social paradigms theory and underlying concepts for Smart Cities accessibility improvement, thus being a very relevant contribution to a challenge faced at the present time. Additionally, research made by Kamberov et al (2017), Santos (2012) and references ontology and social paradigms' application to systems' design. The used ontology and social paradigms concepts combine social reasoning, ontology models, and the organization theory notions in a context-aware behaviour of mobile devices in a computing system with a cooperative structure having several responsibilities for a device.…”

Geo-C: Enabling Open Cities and the Open City Toolkit

“…Kamberov (ESR14) explores the application of social roles and relationships to the world of context-aware, location-based mobile devices to enable opportunistic communication among nearby devices and/or services. The approach relies on an ontology model that exploits social concepts and role theory to permit such an opportunistic communication among devices (Kamberov et al, 2017). Usecase scenarios using the afore-mentioned model were developed (Kamberov et al, 2018) as a basis to proposed software engineering and algorithmic solutions for developing a proof-ofconcept tool and services.…”

Usage of Artificial Vision Cloud Services as Building Blocks for Blind People Assistive Systems

“…Some of the current advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are in image processing, mainly focused on perception and interpretation of images. These are only a few aspects of intelligence and are considered as weak AI, while a strong AI would be a self-conscientious system, capable of thinking the same way as humans [9]- [10]. These weak IA technologies of image processing, are now implemented as data processing services in the cloud.…”