Aljawarneh Mahmoud Mohammad, Shah Shahid Munir, Dhomeja Lachhman Das, Malkani Yasir Arfat, Jawarneh Mahmoud Saleh
Faculty of Information Technology, Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan.
MEU Research Unit, Middle East University, Amman, Jordan.
PeerJ Comput Sci. 2023 Jun 23;9:e1443. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1443. eCollection 2023.
Context-awareness is a pervasive computing enabling technology that allows context-aware applications to respond to multiple contexts such as activity, location, temperature, and so on. When many users attempt to access the same context-aware application, user conflicts may emerge. This issue is emphasized, and a conflict resolution approach is presented to address it. Although there are other conflict resolution approaches in the literature, the one presented here is unique in that it considers the users' special cases such as their sickness, examinations, and so on when resolving conflicts. The proposed approach is helpful when several users with different special cases try to access the same context-aware application. To demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed approach, a conflict manager is integrated with the UbiREAL simulated context-aware home environment. The integrated conflict manager resolves conflicts by taking users special cases into account and employing either automated, mediated, or hybrid conflict resolution approaches. The evaluation of the proposed approach demonstrates that users are satisfied with it and that it is critical and essential to employ users' special cases in detecting and resolving users conflicts.
上下文感知是一种普适计算使能技术，它允许上下文感知应用对多种上下文做出响应，如活动、位置、温度等。当许多用户试图访问同一个上下文感知应用时，可能会出现用户冲突。强调了这个问题，并提出了一种冲突解决方法来解决它。虽然文献中还有其他冲突解决方法，但这里提出的方法独特之处在于，在解决冲突时考虑了用户的特殊情况，如生病、考试等。当几个有不同特殊情况的用户试图访问同一个上下文感知应用时，所提出的方法很有帮助。为了证明所提出方法的有用性，一个冲突管理器与UbiREAL模拟的上下文感知家庭环境集成在一起。集成的冲突管理器通过考虑用户特殊情况并采用自动、中介或混合冲突解决方法来解决冲突。对所提出方法的评估表明，用户对它感到满意，并且在检测和解决用户冲突时采用用户特殊情况至关重要。
