Development of Context-Aware Service Automation Technology for Implementing Smart Home Living Space

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[[abstract]]有效結合資訊與通訊技術及其它技術建構智慧生活空間是近??相當熱門的主題。除?獲得政府相關部門的大?推動，學術界與產業界亦競相投入大?資源進?研發。欲真正?實智慧生活空間必須包含三個層面：一、情境感知資訊之擷取；二、自動化服務之產生；三、?質智慧生活空間裝置之整合與管?。情境感知包含環境?態資訊以及使用者?態資訊，而使用者?態資訊包含顯性之生?與?為資訊以及隱性之心?資訊(包含：意?、智慧、感情與認知)。自動化服務之產生係依據情境感知資訊與智慧生活空間裝置之?態，藉由探勘、推?與評估進而自動產生最符合使用者“需求(want)?與“需要(necessary)?之服務。而?質智慧生活空間裝置之整合與管?，則是能依據使用者所處的空間，自動推?出一組最佳之服務裝置以提供使用者最佳之服務品質。 有鑑於此，本計畫乃基於研究團隊過去在研發?位家庭科技（尤其是智慧型?位家庭服務網?）的成功經驗與?好基礎上，進一步針對智慧家庭生活空間，建構出情境感知之服務自動化系統。為?開發此一系統，本計畫將針對五個核心研究議題進?研究，提出完整的解決方案，並且開發雛型系統及示範應用；此五個核心研究議題分別為：情境資訊探勘與整合(Context Information Discovery and Composition) 、可信賴情境資訊管?與推?（Trustworthy Context Management and Reasoning）、使用者為中心之普及服務發現與合成（User-centric Ubiquitous Service Discovery and Composition）、服務導向資源分配與規劃（Service-oriented Resource Allocation and Scheduling）、以及情境感知服務驗證（Context-aware Service Validation & Emulation）技術。 上述核心研究議題在普及計算(pervasive computing)和情境感知計算(context-aware computing)?域已個別成為目前熱門的研究課題，深具學術研究價值。而整合性的解決方案在國際上仍甚少人觸及，但對發展智慧家庭生活空間的影響甚大。本計畫研究團隊希望且有信心能透過本計畫建構一個完整的情境感知自動化服務之軟體開發平台，以期在智慧生活空間的研究?域中能帶頭向前邁進。[[abstract]]Building smart home living space by integrating ICT and other technologies has been a hot research area. Therefore, government agencies, academy and industry all invest more and more resources in this area. There are three major issues to construct smart living space, including efficient acquisition of trustworthy context information, context-aware service automation, and management and coordination of equipments in the smart living space. The so-called context information includes environment type context information and user type context information. The latter further consists of physiological information and mental information. Service automation denotes the automatic supply of wanted and necessary services to users by evaluating and reasoning the context information. The coordination and management of service equipments in smart home living space denotes the optimal allocation of service equipments according to users’ location and service quality requirement from users. This project intends to develop a context-aware service automation platform and related technologies to support the construction of smart home living space. It is based on the achievements of digital home technology research by the executive team of this project in the past five years. To implement this platform, we must develop the solutions of five key technologies: context information discovery and composition, trustworthy context management and reasoning, user-centric ubiquitous service discovery and composition, service-oriented resource allocation and scheduling, context-aware service validation & emulation。 The key technologies mentioned above just become hot research topics in pervasive computing and context-aware computing now. Besides, integrated solutions have not yet been proposed in the world. However, to reach the goal of constructing smart home living space, it is a must. Based on rich experiences on the study of digital home technology, the research team of this project has high confidence to propose a complete and innovative solution and implement the desired context-aware service automation platform for smart home living space.[[note]]NSC97-2221-E006-144-MY