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Commercially available automation systems for the home are enjoying rising popularity in recent years, promising the dream of a smart home environment. However they leave a lot to be desired in terms of device and network protocol interoperability as well as the sophistication of the services that they provide. As an avenue to realize the dream of a truly smart home, many research efforts have suggested middleware platforms which offer device access to software applications that incorporate intelligent decision making. In this paper, a home platform with support for run-time conflict resolution among smart services is introduced. The conflict resolution features of this platform include device access rights, service priorities, condition sets and notification events. The effectiveness of the above features is demonstrated in several scenarios in which services adapt to context changes. We conclude that such conflict resolution mechanisms are a necessity for every middleware platform that aims to have multiple services concurrently operating in the home environment.
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Sioutis, M., Tanaka, K., Lim, Y., Tan, Y. (2015). Towards Resilient Services in the Home. In: Cleland, I., Guerrero, L., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ICT-based Solutions in Real Life Situations. IWAAL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26410-3_11
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