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Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and most of them rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for contextawareness. This architecture has a weak point: it does not allow the system handling both dynamics of the changing environment and applications. To avoid this, we propose an approach for context-awareness based on a behavioral decomposition, and because each behavior must complete all functionalities necessary for contextawareness, we introduce an hybrid decomposition. It consists in a functional decomposition into a behavioral decomposition. This approach derives benefits from both decomposition, first allowing to handle environment and application’s dynamics, second introducing reusability and modularity into behaviors.
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Ferry, N., Lavirotte, S., Tigli, JY., Rey, G., Riveill, M. (2010). Toward a Behavioral Decomposition for Context-Awareness and Continuity of Services. In: Augusto, J.C., Corchado, J.M., Novais, P., Analide, C. (eds) Ambient Intelligence and Future Trends-International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2010). Advances in Soft Computing, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13268-1_7
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