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Location information is commonly used in context-aware applications and pervasive systems. These applications and systems may require knowledge of the location of users, devices and services. This paper presents a location management system able to gather, process and manage location information from a variety of physical and virtual location sensors. The system scales to the complexity of context-aware applications, to a variety of types and large number of location sensors and clients, and to geographical size of the system. The proposed location management system provides conflict resolution of location information and mechanisms to ensure privacy.
The work reported in this paper has been funded in part by the Co-operative Research Centre Program through the Department of Industry, Science and Tourism of the Commonwealth Government of Australia.
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Indulska, J., McFadden, T., Kind, M., Henricksen, K. (2003). Scalable Location Management for Context-Aware Systems. In: Stefani, JB., Demeure, I., Hagimont, D. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2893. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40010-3_20
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