A Reusable Software Architecture for Context-Aware Applications

Abstract

As the popularity of ubiquitous computing and pervasive computing, the goal of building smart home applications becomes practical. Context- awareness is a key feature of good smart home applications, but many context-aware features have been hard-coded into traditional applications. The hard-coded features cause the slow development of smart home application, and also let the smart home application become inflexible to varying when the requirement is changed. This paper aims to improve the productivity of the development of smart home application by increase the possibility of both reuse and adaptation. By analyzing the variations occurred within smart home domain, we make those possible variations as configurable tuning points. Those variations can be adapted through configuring tuning points, and there is no need to modify the program frequently when the situation is changed.