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BibliographyWolf, Hannes; Palauro, Jonas; Herrmann, Klaus: Fuzzy Event Assignment for Robust Context-Aware Workflows.
In: IARIA (ed.): Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND 2011).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 37-42, english.
Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France: IARIA, August 21, 2011.
ISBN: 978-1-61208-149-6.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationIARIA
CR-SchemaH.4.1 (Office Automation)
I.2.3 (Deduction and Theorem Proving)
Keywordscontext-aware workflows, dependable event assignment, fuzzy logic
Abstract

The dependability of any kind of context-aware pervasive system inherently relies on the ability to detect and recognize context events robustly. However, due to the inaccuracy of real-world sensors the accurate recognition and handling of context information is a fundamental problem leading to ambiguities and inconsistent behavior of applications. Adaptable Pervasive Flows (APF) are a novel workflow-based programming paradigm for pervasive applications. An APF encodes the temporal dependencies of a user’s tasks. We propose a Fuzzy Event Assignment (FEvA) algorithm that exploits this flow-knowledge to significantly improve the robustness of context-aware pervasive applications by resolving the ambiguities inherent to the context data. Our experiments show that FEvA reaches an event assignment accuracy of 78% to 97% and improves the performance of dealing with false positive, out-of-order events, and missed context information.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
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Entry dateOctober 12, 2011
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