%0 Conference Paper
%B Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2007, 4th IEEE
%D 2007
%T Construct: An Open Source Pervasive Systems Platform
%A , Simon Dobson
%A , Paddy Nixon
%A , Lorcan Coyle
%A , Steve Neely
%A , Graeme Stevenson
%A Williamson, Graham
%C Las Vegas, NV, USA
%K construct, middleware, pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing
%P 1203-1204
%X 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.
%8 11/01/2007
%9 inproceedings
%@ 1-4244-0667-6