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The Computer Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 21, 2008
The Computer Journal 2009 52(8):922-937; doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxn042
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This article appears in the following The Computer Journal issue: Incorporating Systems, communications and services in smart homes and Software engineering for e-business Special Issues [View the issue table of contents]

Ambient Ecologies in Smart Homes

C. Goumopoulos* and A. Kameas

Distributed Ambient Information Systems Group, Computer Technology Institute, University Campus, 26500 Rio Patras, Greece

* Corresponding author: goumop{at}cti.gr

Received 31 January 2008; revised 11 June 2008

An important characteristic of ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) environments is the integration of information, communication and sensing technologies into our everyday objects, giving rise to a new proactive computing model in homes. A smart home uses networked sensors, devices and appliances to build an intelligent environment in which many activities in the home are automated and where devices and services seamlessly cooperate to support domestic tasks. Programming and maintaining such an infrastructure is challenging because suitable abstractions are currently missing. In this work we have attempted to define ambient ecologies as a metaphor for modeling UbiComp applications, specify design patterns and programming principles and develop infrastructure to provide a paradigm of application engineering and tools to support ambient ecology designers, developers and end-users. We describe our model and the middleware architecture and present the engineering of applications in a smart home environment.

Key Words: ubiquitous computing • intelligent systems • formal model • context-aware artifacts • middleware • synapse-oriented programming


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