User activity synthesis in ambient intelligence environments

ABSTRACT

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has opened new perspectives to the enactment of human activities related to accessing information and computation. We present in this paper our approach based on Web services towards the dynamic synthesis of user activities within an AmI environment. We introduce a detailed architectural model allowing for precise modeling of environment functionality and its integration into user activities. We illustrate our modeling approach by applying it to a demanding AmI scenario.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
ambient intelligence, architectural model, middleware, service composition, web services