A Dynamic Programming Framework for Pervasive Computing Environments

Overview

As lightweight sensors and mobile computing devices become ubiquitous, they provide increasing amounts of context information that can be leveraged for a range of uses. This paper presents a novel architecture for managing the resulting context-aware interactions to provide transparent, lightweight decision support for a variety of domain specific applications where the types, locations, and users of pervasive sensors and devices are dynamic and unpredictable. The approach takes the current notion of sensor networks from a unified collecting apparatus to a fluid and information rich environment that is directly accessed by mobile users that move in an information-rich environment.