Spatial Awareness of Autonomous Embedded Systems - Softcover

Holzmann, Clemens

 
9783834807984: Spatial Awareness of Autonomous Embedded Systems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3834807982 ISBN 13: 9783834807984
Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Our environment is increasingly pervaded by embedded systems which are integrated into everyday objects, equipped with sensors and actuators, networked among each other and available at any time and in any location. These computationally augmented real-world objects must be supplied with context-awareness and need to share the perceived context-information to enable them to operate more autonomously.

Clemens Holzmann investigates the role of spatial contexts for autonomous embedded systems, in particular the position, direction, and spatial extension of objects with respect to an external reference system or other objects. The author presents concepts for recognizing, representing, and reasoning about qualitative spatial relations and their changes over time, as well as an appropriate architecture which has prototypically been implemented in a flexible software framework. His results show that the proposed concepts are suitable for developing spatially aware applications and that qualitatively abstracted relations can constitute an adequate basis for this purpose.

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About the Author

Dr. Clemens Holzmann is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Pervasive Computing of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria). His research interests include location awareness and context awareness as well as wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.

From the Back Cover

Our environment is increasingly pervaded by embedded systems which are integrated into everyday objects, equipped with sensors and actuators, networked among each other and available at any time and in any location. These computationally augmented real-world objects must be supplied with context-awareness and need to share the perceived context-information to enable them to operate more autonomously.

Clemens Holzmann investigates the role of spatial contexts for autonomous embedded systems, in particular the position, direction, and spatial extension of objects with respect to an external reference system or other objects. The author presents concepts for recognizing, representing, and reasoning about qualitative spatial relations and their changes over time, as well as an appropriate architecture which has prototypically been implemented in a flexible software framework. His results show that the proposed concepts are suitable for developing spatially aware applications and that qualitatively abstracted relations can constitute an adequate basis for this purpose.

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Publisher
Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3834807982
ISBN 13 
9783834807984
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
228