Integrated Profile and Policy Management for Mobile-oriented Internet Services

 

Dr. Claudio Bettini

Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione (DICo)

Universitą degli Studi di Milano

Italy

 

Date: Wednesday February 23, 2005

Time: 12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.

Location: 367 Votey

 

 

Abstract

 

The heterogeneity of device capabilities, network conditions and user contexts that is associated with mobile computing has emphasized the need for more advanced forms of adaptation of Internet services.  This talk presents a framework that addresses this issue by managing distributed profile information and adaptation policies, solving possible conflicts by means of an inference engine and prioritization techniques. The profile information considered in the framework is very broad, including user preferences, device and network capabilities, and user location and context. The framework has been validated by experiments on the efficiency of   the proposed conflict resolution mechanism, and by the implementation of the main components of the architecture.