Evaluation of a Rule-Based Approach for Context-Aware Services
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Costa, Patricia Dockhorn; Almeida, Joao Paulo A.; Pires, Luis Ferreira; van Sinderen, Marten
- Source
- IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008. IEEE. :1-5 Nov, 2008
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Aerospace
Context-aware services
Scalability
Medical services
Runtime
Large-scale systems
Knowledge based systems
Computer science
Telematics
Information technology
Engines
- Language
- ISSN
- 1930-529X
In previous work we have proposed a rule-based platform to support context-aware service development. Rules are used to detect relevant situations in the users' context and to trigger actions in response to context changes. Rule-based solutions offer flexibility with respect to service maintainability, since rules can be modified and added at runtime. However, rule-based systems are often criticized for being monolithic systems that only perform adequately for rather static datasets, which would imply that these systems are not capable of providing the performance and scalability required by large scale context-aware services. In this paper we show that this criticism does not always hold by evaluating our distributed rule-based implementation and demonstrating the suitability of this approach for highly dynamic context-aware services.