Article in Proceedings INPROC-2009-53

BibliographyCipriani, Nazario; Wieland, Matthias; Grossmann, Matthias; Nicklas, Daniela: Tool Support for the Design and Management of Spatial Context Models.
In: Proc. of the 13th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2009).
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
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Riga, Lativa: Springer, September 2009.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
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 eases this task by providing a graphical user interface to design schemas for spatial 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.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Architecture of Application 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 dateJune 22, 2009
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