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User-Oriented Multimedia Service in the Ubiquitous Home Environment (유비쿼터스 흠 환경에서의 사용자 중심 멀티미디어 서비스)

  • Park Jong-Hyuk;Lee Sang-Jin;Koh Byoung-Soo;Lee Sang-Won
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.8 no.11
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    • pp.1531-1542
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    • 2005
  • In multimedia service of Ubiquitous Home Environment(UHE), the requirements such as intelligent service that is executed automatically without direct order of user and fitted service compatible for each user and comfortable of user, interoperability of multimedia contents between incompatible devices will increase. Multimedia protection and management, authentication and authority administration methods that are suitable for above demands are also required. In this paper, we suggest authentication method suited for UHE and propose user oriented multimedia service(UHMS: Ubiquitous Home Multimedia Service) that provides the interoperability of multimedia between incompatible devices, conducts intelligently the context information (preference information, device information etc.) using sensor module and home server, provides and secure services.

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Modeling and Verification Methodology for Context-awareness Service using Colored Petri-Net (Colored Petri-Net을 이용한 상황인식 서비스의 모델링과 검증 방법)

  • Han, Seung-Wok;Youn, Hee-Yong
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.283-290
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    • 2009
  • Context-awareness is one of the key features of ubiquitous paradigm. A methodology that is specifying the relationships between the contexts and services needs to be developed to intelligently and sensitively deal with dynamic environment. The existing models on context-aware modeling are difficult to verify the correctness of models with respect to timeliness. In this paper we propose an approach which includes timing constraint in the relations of the context model, and verify its effectiveness using colored Petri-Net. Moreover, a context-modeling toolkit including context-awareness engine and simulator is developed to support agent-based context-aware service. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is demonstrated using an example of Usilvercare.

The CAbAT Modeling of Library User Context Information Applying Activity Theory (행위이론을 적용한 도서관 이용자 컨텍스트 정보의 CAbAT 모델링)

  • Lee, Jeong-Soo;Nam, Young-Joon
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.221-239
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    • 2012
  • The information that has been created according to the complex environment and usage pattern of library user can provide context-aware information service through knowledge structuralization on whether it is a suitable situation for user. Accordingly, the development of a context model for defining the various contexts of library user and for the structuralization of interrelated context information is an essential requirement. This study examined the context concept and context modeling, and utilizing the concept of Activity Theory by Engestrom, the activity model of library user was designed as 1) subject, 2) object, 3) tools, 4) divison of labor, 5) community, and 6) rules. In addition, for the purpose of analyzing the context of library user, activity information was tracked to utilize the Shadow Tracking for observing and recording their forms, and the methodology of CAbAT (Context Analysis based on Activity Theory) was utilized for the collected activity information to analyze the user context model.

Context Conflicts of Role-Based Access Control in Ubiquitous Computing Environment (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경의 역할 기반 접근제어에서 발생하는 상황 충돌)

  • Nam Seung-Jwa;Park Seog
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.37-52
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    • 2005
  • Traditional access control models like role-based access control model are insufficient in security needs in ubiquitous computing environment because they take no thought of access control based on user's context or environment condition. In these days, although researches on context-aware access control using user's context or environment conditions based on role-based access control are emerged, they are on the primary stage. We present context definitions md an access control model to provide more flexible and dynamic context-aware access control based on role-based access control. Specially, we describe the conflict problems occurred in the middle of making an access decision. After classifying the conflict problems, we show some resolutions to solve them. In conclusion, we will lay the foundations of the development of security policy and model assuring right user of right object(or resource) and application service through pre-defined context and context classification in ubiquitous computing environments. Beyond the simplicity of access to objects by authorized users, we assure that user can access to the object, resource, or service anywhere and anytime according to right context.

Context Prediction Using Right and Wrong Patterns to Improve Sequential Matching Performance for More Accurate Dynamic Context-Aware Recommendation (보다 정확한 동적 상황인식 추천을 위해 정확 및 오류 패턴을 활용하여 순차적 매칭 성능이 개선된 상황 예측 방법)

  • Kwon, Oh-Byung
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.51-67
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    • 2009
  • Developing an agile recommender system for nomadic users has been regarded as a promising application in mobile and ubiquitous settings. To increase the quality of personalized recommendation in terms of accuracy and elapsed time, estimating future context of the user in a correct way is highly crucial. Traditionally, time series analysis and Makovian process have been adopted for such forecasting. However, these methods are not adequate in predicting context data, only because most of context data are represented as nominal scale. To resolve these limitations, the alignment-prediction algorithm has been suggested for context prediction, especially for future context from the low-level context. Recently, an ontological approach has been proposed for guided context prediction without context history. However, due to variety of context information, acquiring sufficient context prediction knowledge a priori is not easy in most of service domains. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a novel context prediction methodology, which does not require a priori knowledge, and to increase accuracy and decrease elapsed time for service response. To do so, we have newly developed pattern-based context prediction approach. First of ail, a set of individual rules is derived from each context attribute using context history. Then a pattern consisted of results from reasoning individual rules, is developed for pattern learning. If at least one context property matches, say R, then regard the pattern as right. If the pattern is new, add right pattern, set the value of mismatched properties = 0, freq = 1 and w(R, 1). Otherwise, increase the frequency of the matched right pattern by 1 and then set w(R,freq). After finishing training, if the frequency is greater than a threshold value, then save the right pattern in knowledge base. On the other hand, if at least one context property matches, say W, then regard the pattern as wrong. If the pattern is new, modify the result into wrong answer, add right pattern, and set frequency to 1 and w(W, 1). Or, increase the matched wrong pattern's frequency by 1 and then set w(W, freq). After finishing training, if the frequency value is greater than a threshold level, then save the wrong pattern on the knowledge basis. Then, context prediction is performed with combinatorial rules as follows: first, identify current context. Second, find matched patterns from right patterns. If there is no pattern matched, then find a matching pattern from wrong patterns. If a matching pattern is not found, then choose one context property whose predictability is higher than that of any other properties. To show the feasibility of the methodology proposed in this paper, we collected actual context history from the travelers who had visited the largest amusement park in Korea. As a result, 400 context records were collected in 2009. Then we randomly selected 70% of the records as training data. The rest were selected as testing data. To examine the performance of the methodology, prediction accuracy and elapsed time were chosen as measures. We compared the performance with case-based reasoning and voting methods. Through a simulation test, we conclude that our methodology is clearly better than CBR and voting methods in terms of accuracy and elapsed time. This shows that the methodology is relatively valid and scalable. As a second round of the experiment, we compared a full model to a partial model. A full model indicates that right and wrong patterns are used for reasoning the future context. On the other hand, a partial model means that the reasoning is performed only with right patterns, which is generally adopted in the legacy alignment-prediction method. It turned out that a full model is better than a partial model in terms of the accuracy while partial model is better when considering elapsed time. As a last experiment, we took into our consideration potential privacy problems that might arise among the users. To mediate such concern, we excluded such context properties as date of tour and user profiles such as gender and age. The outcome shows that preserving privacy is endurable. Contributions of this paper are as follows: First, academically, we have improved sequential matching methods to predict accuracy and service time by considering individual rules of each context property and learning from wrong patterns. Second, the proposed method is found to be quite effective for privacy preserving applications, which are frequently required by B2C context-aware services; the privacy preserving system applying the proposed method successfully can also decrease elapsed time. Hence, the method is very practical in establishing privacy preserving context-aware services. Our future research issues taking into account some limitations in this paper can be summarized as follows. First, user acceptance or usability will be tested with actual users in order to prove the value of the prototype system. Second, we will apply the proposed method to more general application domains as this paper focused on tourism in amusement park.

A Design of the Service Model for Context-aware Wearable Computing (Context-aware Wearable Computing을 위한 서비스 모델 설계)

  • 최인선;오남호;조기환
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2001.04a
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    • pp.286-288
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    • 2001
  • 인터넷의 급격한 성장과 더불어 이동 컴퓨팅과 무선 네트워크의 발전과 같은 요즘의 컴퓨팅 경향은 분산 시스템을 사용하는 새로운 컴퓨팅 방법론을 제시하고 있다. 이러한 컴퓨팅 환경에서 사용자들은 사용자 중심의 효과적인 서비스를 제공받기 위해 변화하는 환경에 적응적인 시스템을 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 사용자들에게 보다 유용한 정보와 서비스를 제공하기 위해 컴퓨터와 환경의 상호작용 메커니즘을 토대로 Wearable Computing을 위한 Context-aware 서비스 모델을 제안함으로써 사용자의 현재 상황에 최적인 서비스를 제공하는 프레임워크를 제시하고자 한다.

Design of Dynamic Location Privacy Protection Scheme Based an CS-RBAC (CS-RBAC 기반의 동적 Location Privacy 보호 구조 설계)

  • Song You-Jin;Han Seoung-Hyun;Lee Dong-Hyeok
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.13C no.4 s.107
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    • pp.415-426
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    • 2006
  • The essential characteristic of ubiquitous is context-awareness, and that means ubiquitous computing can automatically process the data that change according to space and time, without users' intervention. However, in circumstance of context awareness, since location information is able to be collected without users' clear approval, users cannot control their location information completely. These problems can cause privacy issue when users access their location information. Therefore, it is important to construct the location information system, which decides to release the information considering privacy under the condition such as location, users' situation, and people who demand information. Therefore, in order to intercept an outflow information and provide securely location-based information, this paper suggests a new system based CS-RBAC with the existing LBS, which responds sensitively as customer's situation. Moreover, it accommodates a merit of PCP reflecting user's preference constructively. Also, through privacy weight, it makes information not only decide to providing information, but endow 'grade'. By this method, users' data can be protected safely with foundation of 'Role' in context-aware circumstance.

Context-aware based TV Application Services in Ubiquitous Computing Environments (유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경에서 상황인식 기반 TV 응용 서버스)

  • Moon Ae-Kyung;Lee Kang-Woo;Kim Hyoung-Sun;Kim Hyun;Lee Soo-Won
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.31 no.7B
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    • pp.619-631
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    • 2006
  • With the advent of ubiquitous computing environments, it has become increasingly important for applications to take full advantage of context information, such as the user's location, to offer greater services to the user without any explicit request. In this paper, we propose context-aware active services on the basis of CAMUS (Context-Aware Middleware for URC Systems). CAMUS is a middleware for providing context-aware applications with development and execution methodology. Accordingly, the applications developed by CAMUS respond in a timely fashion to contexts. To evaluate, we apply proposed active services to TV application domain. Therefore, we implement and experiment the TV contents recommendation service agent, control service agent and TV task based on CAMUS. The context-aware TV task is to recommend programs and control of TV according to user preference, location and voice commands.

Study on Context-Aware SOA based on Open Service Gateway initiative platform (OSGi플렛폼 기반의 상황인식 서비스지향아키텍쳐에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Sung-Wook;Oh, Am-Suk;Kwon, Oh-Hyun;Kang, Si-Hyeob;Hong, Soon-Goo;Choi, Hyun-Rim
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.11
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    • pp.2083-2090
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    • 2006
  • In an proposed Context-Aware SOA(Service Oriented Architecture) based OSGi(Open Service Gateway initiative) platform, Service provider manages relative kinds of services in an integrative basis from various sensors, puts each service in a SOAP (Simple Object access Protocol) message, and register thorn to the UDDI(Universal Description Discovery and Integration) server of service registry, service requester retrivel the specified kinds of services and call them to service provider. Recently most context-aware technologies for ubiquitous home network are mainly putting emphasis on RFID/USN and location-based technology. Because of this, service-oriented architecture researches have not been made enough. Under the environment of an OSGi service platform, various context-aware services are dynamically mapping from various sensors, new services are being offered for the asking of users, and existing services are changing. Accordingly, the data sharing between services provided, management of service life cycle, and the facilitation of service distribution are needed. Taking into considering all these factors, this study has suggested an Context-Aware SOA based eclipse SOA Tools Platform using OSGi platform that can transaction throughtput of more than 546 TPS of distributional Little's Law from ATAM(Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) while remaining stable other condition.

User Context-aware based Interactive Display Service for Smart Collaborative Environment (지능형 협업 환경을 위한 사용자 컨텍스트 기반 인터랙티브 디스플레이 서비스)

  • Ko, Su-Jin;Shin, Hun-Yong;Woo, Woon-Tack;Kim, Jong-Won
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.286-291
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    • 2008
  • Intelligence of collaborative environments starts from a trial to provide optimal services to with users based on real-time information about participants and environments of the collaboration itself. Up to now, we can collect information such as temperature, light, time, each participant's gestures, faces, voices, and locations by adopting ubiquitous computing technologies. However, since social relationship is intrinsic to collaborative activities, the relationships and roles among participants should be fully considered to provide optimal services. To do so, we have to integrate collected data from various sensors and extracted data about relationships and roles among participants as unified one context. Thus, this paper designs collaborative services filtered, by using the integrated data as a context, and introduces an implemented example, context-aware based interactive display service, called as smart meeting system (SMeet system).

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