Integrating the Physical World with the Web to Enable Context-Enhanced

[摘要] In Cooltown, we believe that the integration of our physical world with the Web offers unique opportunities to enable ubiquitous computing applications. This paper describes our latest results in building a model and a software architecture called the Web presence manager (WPM) to support this physical-virtual integration. This software layer implements and specifies the services and information provided by Web representations of physical entities such as people, places, or things. We detail an extensive context-enhanced media-oriented application built on top of our platform. Our application enables mobile and context-aware access to personal contents and rendering on local appliances in a variety of ubiquitous computing environments. 15 Pages

[发布机构] HP Development Company

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）

[关键词] ubiquitous computing;pervasive computing;Web presence;context-aware;location-aware;smart spaces;Cooltown