A Security Architecture Based on Trust Management for Pervasive Computing Systems

Author(s):  
Lalana Kagal ◽  
Jeffrey Undercoffer ◽  
Filip Perich ◽  
Anupam Joshi ◽  
Tim Finin
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN YE ◽  
LORCAN COYLE ◽  
SIMON DOBSON ◽  
PADDY NIXON

AbstractPervasive computing is by its nature open and extensible, and must integrate the information from a diverse range of sources. This leads to a problem of information exchange, so sub-systems must agree on shared representations. Ontologies potentially provide a well-founded mechanism for the representation and exchange of such structured information. A number of ontologies have been developed specifically for use in pervasive computing, none of which appears to cover adequately the space of concerns applicable to application designers. We compare and contrast the most popular ontologies, evaluating them against the system challenges generally recognized within the pervasive computing community. We identify a number of deficiencies that must be addressed in order to apply the ontological techniques successfully to next-generation pervasive systems.


Author(s):  
Giorgos Siolas ◽  
George Caridakis ◽  
Phivos Mylonas ◽  
Giorgos Stratogiannis ◽  
Stefanos Kollias ◽  
...  

The current paper provides an overview on how user modeling, context awareness and content adaptation in Smart Home environments may be handled formally in order to capture the semantics that emerge from a newly introduced user experience: SandS is in fact a complete ecosystem of users within a social network, creating and exchanging content in the form of so-called recipes and developing a collective intelligence which adapts its operation through appropriate feedback provided by the user. The authors will approach SandS from the user's perspective and illustrate how users and their relationships can be modeled through a number of fuzzy stereotypical profiles. Additionally, context modeling in pervasive computing systems and especially in the Smart Home paradigm will be examined through appropriate representation of context cues in the overall interaction. Finally, the authors will investigate how users and system services although using languages of different semantic expressiveness can inter-operate successfully thanks to appropriate knowledge-based expert mappings.


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