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Year: 2017
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Author: Ling Feng

“Context‑Aware Computing” by Ling Feng (1st Edition, 2017, De Gruyter) is a comprehensive reference on designing and managing context‑aware systems within ambient intelligence environments. At ~480 pages, it offers both theoretical foundations and real-world applications, making it ideal for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in computer science.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Fundamental

1. Context-Aware Data Management Toward Ambient Intelligence

  • Ambient Intelligence

    • A Scenario

    • Challenges of Context-Awareness

  • What Is Context?

    • Context Definitions

    • Context Categorization

  • Characteristics of Context

    • Being Sensed

    • Through Constrained Devices

    • From Distributed Sources

    • Continuous Change

    • Mobility

    • Temporality and Spatiality

    • Imperfectness and Uncertainty

  • What Does Context-Awareness Imply?

    • Users’ Perspectives

    • Systems’ Perspectives

  • Context-Aware Querying

    • Basics of Context-Aware Queries

    • Context-Aware Querying Strategies

  • Supporting Context-Aware Data Management

    • Context Provider

    • Service Registry

    • Context Processor

    • Context Consumer

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

Part II: Context

2. Modeling Context

  • Six Context Representation Methods

    • Key-Value

    • Entity-Relationship

    • Object-Orientation

    • Markup Schema

    • Logics

    • Ontology

    • Methods Comparison

  • Context Ontology

    • Context Formalism

    • Ontology Language – OWL

    • Logic Foundation of OWL – Description Logic (DL)

    • Correspondence Between OWL and DL

    • A Simple Context Ontology Example

  • Context Events

    • Interpreting Context as Context Events

    • Temporality of Context Events

    • Temporal Operators on Context Events

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

3. Addressing Context Uncertainty

  • Uncertainty

    • Aleatory Uncertainty

    • Epistemic Uncertainty

  • Uncertainty Processing Theories

    • Theory Overview

    • Probability Theory

    • Fuzzy Theory

    • Information-Gap Theory

    • Derived Uncertainty Theory

  • Uncertainty Processing Practices

    • Practice Overview

    • In Economics

    • In Engineering

    • In Ecology

    • In Information Science

    • In Databases

  • Context Uncertainty Management

    • Context Uncertainty

    • Probabilistic Context Events

    • Advanced Techniques of Context Uncertainty Management

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

4. Acquiring Context

  • Offering Context Acquisition Services

    • Unifying Context Acquisition Interfaces

    • Building a General Context Provision and Acquisition Adaptor

    • A Declarative Specification Language for Context Acquisition

  • Point Descriptors

    • Connector Descriptors

    • Constraint Descriptors

    • Quality Descriptors

  • Quality-Assured Context Acquisition

    • The Least Squared Error of Redundant Context Values

  • Failure of Context Providers

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

5. Protecting Context Privacy

  • Balancing Privacy and Smartness

  • Privacy Protection Techniques

    • Access Control

    • Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)

    • Hippocratic Databases

    • Anonymity

    • Encryption

  • Search Over Encrypted XML Context Information

    • A Three-Phased Search Framework

    • Data Encoding Phase

    • Candidate Identification Phase

    • Tree Search Phase

  • Requirements for Self-Regulation of Context Information

    • Life-Cycle Management of Context Information

    • Limitations of Traditional Privacy Preservation Strategies

    • A Life-Cycle Policy (LCP) Model

    • Use Scenarios of LCPs

    • LCP-based Context Privacy Protection Diagram

    • Challenges with LCP-Based Privacy Protection

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

Part III: Context Awareness

6. Querying Context

  • Seven Context Query Mechanisms

    • SQL Based

    • XML Based

    • Ontology Based

    • Event Based

    • Logic Based

    • Programming API Based

    • Graphic Interface Based

    • Mechanisms Comparison

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

7. Detecting Context Events

  • Integration of Stream and Event Processing

    • Stream and Event Processing Operators

    • Stream and Event Processing Methods

    • Stream and Event Processing Systems

  • High-Performance Context Event Detection

    • Indexing Stream Records

    • Condensed Composition of Stream Records

    • Partitioning Stream Records for Parallel Processing

8. Energy Management in Context Querying

  • Energy-Efficiency Requirement

  • Energy-Efficiency Problem

  • Energy Management at Different Computing Levels

    • Energy-Efficient Hardware

    • Energy-Efficient Cluster Systems

    • Energy-Efficient Applications

    • Models and Benchmarks of Energy Efficiency

      • Models and Metrics

      • Benchmarks

  • Energy-Efficient Query Processing and Optimization

    • Energy Management at Sensor Networks

    • Energy Management at Mobile Front Ends

    • Energy-Efficient Query Engines

  • Discussion

    • Redesigning Physical Context Database

    • Energy-Aware Query Processing and Optimization Strategies

    • Dynamic Workload and Resource Management

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

9. Context Query Efficiency Versus Expense

  • Basics of Cloud Computing

    • Service Models of Cloud Computing

    • Characteristics and Benefits of Cloud Computing

    • Key Benefits of Cloud Computing

  • Concerns of Context Query Performance and Expense

    • Performance Management

    • Resource Charging

  • Tuning of Query Performance and Expense

    • Problem Formulation

    • Multiple Objective Optimization

    • A Genetic Approach for Multiple Objective Optimization

    • Performance Evaluation

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

Part IV: Context-Aware Data Management

10. Context-Aware Preference Querying

  • Query Preferences in Databases

    • Qualitative Representation of Preferences

    • Quantitative Representation of Preferences

  • Implanting Context-Aware Query Preferences upon a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)

    • A Knowledge-Based Context-Aware Preference Model

    • Explicating Context-Aware Preferences in a Database World

    • Personalized Querying with Context-Aware Preferences

  • Contextual Ranking of Database Querying Results

    • A Motivation Example

    • Database and Context Space

    • Ranking Database Tuples Under Context Instances

    • Building Contextual Ranking Functions by Regression

    • Reducing Context Dimensionality in Contextual Ranking

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

11. Analyzing Sensitivity of Answer Ordering Change

  • Motivation

  • Sensitivity Analysis Techniques in Databases

    • Attribute Selection

    • Provenance and Lineage

    • Causality and Responsibility

    • Sensitivity Measurement and Computation

  • Sensitivity Analysis Problem for Answer Ordering Change

    • Review of the Probabilistic Database Model

    • Answer Ordering Change

    • Measurement of Answer Ordering Change

    • Sensitivity of Answer Ordering Change

  • Sensitivity Computation for Answer Ordering Change

    • Five Computation Modules

    • Sensitivity Computation Method

    • Performance

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

12. Explaining and Scrubbing Context-Aware Query Results

  • Motivation

  • Result Explanation and Uncertain Data Cleaning Techniques

    • Explanation in General

    • Explanation in Databases

    • User Feedback

    • Cleaning Data Uncertainty

  • Design Principles for Answer Explanation Facility

  • Involving Users in Querying Uncertain Context Data

    • Result Explanation

    • Query Recomputation

    • Performance

    • Discussion

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

13. Context-Based Information Refinding

  • Refinding Is a Common Activity

    • Context-Based Information Refinding

    • Differences from Information Finding

    • Characteristics of Information Refinding

    • Difficulties in Information Refinding

  • Overview of Information Refinding Techniques

    • Web Information Refinding

    • Personal Information Refinding

    • Comparison of Different Refinding Techniques

  • Nature-Inspired Context-Based Refinding

    • Brain’s Memory Recall

    • Information Refinding by Structured Context

    • Web Revisitation by Context and Content Keywords

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

Part V: Context-Aware Applications

14. A Context-Aware Ad-Hoc Meeting Planner Program

  • Early Pioneering Context-Aware Applications

  • Motivation

  • Context-Awareness in ConPlan

  • ConPlan Design Considerations

  • ConPlan Framework

  • ConPlan Context Management

  • ConPlan Implementation

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

15. Context-Aware Learning

  • Learning in an Ambient Intelligent World

  • Motivation of Context-Aware Learning

  • Five Kinds of Learning Context

  • Enabling Techniques for Context-Aware Learning

    • GPS-based Learning

    • Sensor-Based Learning

    • Personalized Learning

    • RFID-based Learning

  • Some Context-Aware Learning Prototypes

  • Challenges upon Context-Aware Learning

  • Recapitulation

16. Context-Aware Management of Bilingual Aviation MRO Task Cards

  • Motivation

  • Generating Bilingual MRO Task Cards (TaskCardGenerator2c Architecture)

    • Task Card Generator2c Implementation

  • Searching Bilingual MRO Task Cards (TaskCardFinder)

    • Existing Search Engines

    • Task Card Finder Functionalities

    • Task Card Finder Architecture

    • TaskCard Finder Implementation

  • User Study

    • On TaskCardGenerator2c

    • On TaskCard Finder

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

17. FireVGuide: A Context-Aware Fire Victims Guide

  • Motivation

    • Two Real Fire Disasters

    • Reflection of the Real Fire Disasters

    • Necessity of FireVGuide

    • Assumptions of FireVGuide

    • Principles of FireVGuide

  • State-of-Art Firefighting Techniques

    • Supporting Firefighters

    • Supporting Fire Victims

  • Solution Requirements

    • Building Structure

    • Timeliness

    • Simple Interaction

    • Reliability

  • FireVGuide Architecture

    • Hardware Deployment

    • Software Architecture

  • FireVGuide Guidance Generation

    • Evacuation Route Generation

    • To-Do-List Generation for Trapped Occupants

  • Evaluation of FireVGuide

    • User Interviews

    • Empirical Experience with FireVGuide

    • Effectiveness of FireVGuide

    • Efficiency of FireVGuide

  • Recapitulation

  • Literature

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