Abstract
Due to the dynamic and ephemeral nature of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) environments, it is especially important that the application software in ubicomp environments is trustworthy. In order to have trustworthy application software in ubicomp environments, situation-awareness (SAW) in the application software is needed to enforce flexible security policies and detect violations of security policies. In this paper, an approach is presented to provide development and runtime support to incorporate SAW in trustworthy ubicomp application software. The development support is to provide SAW requirement specification and automated code generation to achieve SAW in trustworthy ubicomp application software, and the runtime support is for context acquisition, situation analysis and situation-aware communication. To realize our approach, the improved Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware (RCSM) is developed to provide the above development and runtime support.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 893-921 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | Software - Practice and Experience |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 25 2006 |
Keywords
- Development and runtime support
- Situation-aware interface definition language (sa-idl)
- Situation-aware middleware
- Situation-aware security policies
- Situation-awareness
- Trustworthy ubiquitous application software
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software