Article in Journal ART-2011-03

BibliographyCipriani, Nazario; Wieland, Matthias; Grossmann, Matthias; Nicklas, Daniela: Tool support for the design and management of context models.
In: Vossen, Gottfried (ed.); Morzy, Tadeusz (ed.): Information Systems. Vol. 36(1).
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 99-114, english.
Oxford, UK, UK: Elsevier Science Ltd., March 2011.
ISBN: 0306-4379.
Article in Journal.
CR-SchemaH.2.4 (Database Management Systems)
Abstract

A central task in the development of context-aware applications is the modeling and management of complex context information. In this paper, we present the NexusEditor, which can ease this task by providing a graphical user interface to design schemas for spatial and technical context models, interactively create queries, send them to a server and visualize the results. One main contribution is to show how schema awareness can improve such a tool: The NexusEditor dynamically parses the underlying data model and provides additional syntactic checks, semantic checks, and short-cuts based on the schema information. Furthermore, the tool helps to design new schema definitions based on the existing ones, which is crucial for an iterative and user-centric development of context-aware applications. Finally, it provides interfaces to existing information spaces and visualization tools for spatial data like GoogleEarth.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, E1 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application Systems)
SFB-627, B1 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems)
SFB-627, B5 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems)
Entry dateFebruary 11, 2011
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