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Gaia: A Middleware Infrastructure to Enable Active Spaces (2002)
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| Venue: | IEEE Pervasive Computing |
| Citations: | 263 - 16 self |
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@ARTICLE{Román02gaia:a,
author = {Manuel Román and Christopher Hess and Renato Cerqueira and Roy H. Campbell and Klara Nahrstedt},
title = {Gaia: A Middleware Infrastructure to Enable Active Spaces},
journal = {IEEE Pervasive Computing},
year = {2002},
volume = {1},
pages = {74--83}
}
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Abstract
We envision a future where people’s living spaces are interactive and programmable. Users interact with their offices, homes, cars, malls and airports to request information, benefit from the resources available, and configure the habitat’s behavior. Data and tasks are always accessible and are mapped dynamically to convenient resources present in the current location. Users may extend the habitat with personal devices that seamlessly integrate with the environment. Such user-oriented interactive environments may require a novel software infrastructure to operate their resources, sense context properties, and assist in the development and execution of applications. In this article, we present an experimental middleware infrastructure called Gaia that we have used to prototype the resource management of and provide the useroriented interfaces for such physical spaces populated with network-enabled computing resources. To limit the scope of our research, we focus on physical spaces used for teaching; classrooms, offices, and lecture rooms. The system described in this paper is derived from a series of experiments starting in 1996. We show how, by applying the concepts of a conventional operating system to middleware, we can manage the resources, devices and distributed objects in a room, building, or physical space, how a distributed extension of the model–view–controller that is use in personal computers simplifies and structures practical applications for these environments, and how, by driving context-sensitivity into its data storage mechanisms, the system can help satisfy the requirements for user-centricity and mobility. 1.
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physical space active space middleware infrastructure habitat behavior data storage mechanism conventional operating system experimental middleware infrastructure novel software infrastructure resource management distributed extension personal computer simplifies personal device user-oriented interactive environment structure practical application living space useroriented interface model view controller current location sense context property lecture room distributed object
