Merino:Towards an intelligent environment architecture for multi-granularity context description

The Intelligent Environment consists of ubiquitous connectivity in sensor rich environments coupled with adaptive technologies that allow access from multiple devices with varying capabilities. Context information is drawn from what the Intelligent Environment can sense about its current physical and computational environments. This context information relates to aspects of the environment which include, who is in the environment, what they are doing, what they have done, and what their actions are. Multi-granularity context description provides a mechanism to describe, at increasingly more abstract levels, such context information gleaned from the Intelligent Environment. The proposed architecture for the Intelligent Environment is central to determining methods for capturing such information at the lowest level, interpreting by historical reference, and aggregating into increasingly more abstract forms.