LOCATION-AWARE DESPLOYMENT OF SERVICES FOR INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS

A framework for building and managing context-aware services for intelligent environments is presented. The goal of the framework is to provide physical entities, e.g., people and things, and places with location-aware or personalized services to support and annotate them. The framework can implement context-aware services within mobile agents or codes instead of the framework itself. It enables such service to be executed at computing devices near the positions of the entities and places that the services are bound to so that users can directly access location-based services from their portable computing devices or their personalized services from stationary computing devices in the environment. This paper presents the rationale, design, implementation, and applications. 1