In the near future, intelligent objects and devices will become part of the environment where people live, providing information and offering services that can assist them in everyday life. In such settings, it is desirable that services offered to the users are meaningful (i.e. satisfy their tasks and needs). Intelligent environments should support the composition of partial information or service behaviours into comprehensive services that can achieve the user goals. Such composition should take place dynamically as new service opportunities arise, such as when new devices appear or as users enter new environments. Service discovery and composition should not require expert knowledge, but be manageable for ordinary users.
The idea of UbiCompForAll is about providing support to end users so they can easily compose service behaviours in ubiquitous service environments. UbiCompForAll willprovide graphical composition tools targeted the end-users and a service execution platform.
The main challenge of UbiCompForAll is to come up with a comprehensive infrastructure that is sophisticated enough to handle the various aspects of user-driven service compositions (such as simplicity or robustness), while being intuitive enough for ordinary end-users.UbiCompForAll is a research project founded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project started in October 2008, with planned duration 4 years. It involves academia and industry.
With its new "Campus Guide", the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is now the first university in the world where you can navigate from inside a building using a mobile phone.
Both students and visitors often get lost on the university's Gløshaugen campus, which at 350,000 m2 is the size of a small town. But now, a beta version of the university's innovative "Campus Guide" will show people where to go and how to get there. The service will go live on 31 August 2001 and will be available free for iPhone and Android users, and on the Web.
The application was developped by NTNU and Wireless Trondheim, both project partners in UbiCompForAll, and will be used as a test case for end-user service composition.
Read more about Campus Guide on NTNU news. You can find the Campus Guide at http://www.campusguiden.no.
Prof. Kurt Geihs from the University of Kassel (Germany) is visiting the UbiCompForAll project for a period of two months.
His research and teaching interests include distributed systems, autonomous robots, and software technology. Current research projects focus on self-adaptive context-aware systems, collaborative autonomous mobile robots, and service management in service-oriented computing systems. In UbiCompForAll he intends to contribute to the general architectural design and in particular to the service discovery, matching and composition at runtime.
Download the project flyer.
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