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The book addresses the impact of ambient intelligence, particularly its user-centric context-awareness requirement on data management strategies and solutions. Techniques of conceptualizing, capturing, protecting, modelling, and querying context information, as well as context-aware data management application are discussed, making the book is an essential reference for computer scientists, information scientists and industrial engineers.

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Table of contents

1 Context-Aware Data Management Towards Ambient Intelligence

2 Modeling Context

3 Addressing Context Uncertainty

4 Acquiring Context

5 Protecting Context Privacy

6 Querying Context

7 Detecting Context Events

8 Energy Management in Context Querying

9 Context Query Efficiency vs. Expense

10 Context-Aware Preference Querying

11 Analyzing Sensitivity of Answer Ordering Change

12 Explaining and Scrubbing Context-Aware Query Results

13 Context-based Information Re-finding

14 A Context-Aware Ad-Hoc Meeting Plan Program

15 Context-Aware Learning

16 Context-Aware Management of Bilingual Aviation MRO Task Cards

17 FireVGuide: A Context-Aware Fire Victims Guide

References

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Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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