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.

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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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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Spatial Awareness

Representation of Space

Distributed Spatial Reasoning

Rule-Based Spatial Awareness

Zones-of-Influence Framework

Framework Evaluation

Back Matter

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