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Spatial Awareness of Autonomous Embedded Systems

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  1. Clemens Holzmann
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXII
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  2. Introduction

    • Clemens Holzmann
    Pages 1-8

  3. Spatial Awareness

    • Clemens Holzmann
    Pages 9-43

  4. Representation of Space

    • Clemens Holzmann
    Pages 45-74

  5. Distributed Spatial Reasoning

    • Clemens Holzmann
    Pages 75-104

  6. Rule-Based Spatial Awareness

    • Clemens Holzmann
    Pages 105-120

  7. Zones-of-Influence Framework

    • Clemens Holzmann
    Pages 121-145

  8. Framework Evaluation

    • Clemens Holzmann
    Pages 147-175

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 177-206
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About this book

Our environment is increasingly pervaded by embedded systems which are integrated into everyday objects, equipped with sensors and actuators, networked among each other and available at any time and in any location. These computationally augmented real-world objects must be supplied with context-awareness and need to share the perceived context-information to enable them to operate more autonomously.

Clemens Holzmann investigates the role of spatial contexts for autonomous embedded systems, in particular the position, direction, and spatial extension of objects with respect to an external reference system or other objects. The author presents concepts for recognizing, representing, and reasoning about qualitative spatial relations and their changes over time, as well as an appropriate architecture which has prototypically been implemented in a flexible software framework. His results show that the proposed concepts are suitable for developing spatially aware applications and that qualitatively abstracted relations can constitute an adequate basis for this purpose.

About the author

Dr. Clemens Holzmann is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for Pervasive Computing of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Austria). His research interests include location awareness and context awareness as well as wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Spatial Awareness of Autonomous Embedded Systems

  • Authors: Clemens Holzmann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9569-1

  • Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8348-0798-4Published: 25 March 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-8348-9569-1Published: 26 July 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 206

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer Science, general

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