Construct: An Open Source Pervasive Systems Platform

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Source:

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2007, 4th IEEE, Las Vegas, NV, USA, p.1203-1204 (2007)

ISBN:

1-4244-0667-6

Keywords:

construct; middleware; pervasive computing; ubiquitous computing

Abstract:

Construct differs from other pervasive systems platforms in a number of key respects. It is completely standards-based, using RDF as its data exchange model and ZeroConf for resource discovery. It supports a knowledge-centric model of interaction where clients' actions are driven by queries and triggers about the context of the system. It uses gossiping to maintain a consistent state across a distributed data structure, which maximises robustness and scalability and avoids many problems with hot-spots and hot-paths in communications. Finally, it treats all information sources uniformly as sensors acting as inputs to uncertain reasoning algorithms.

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