1. CSMC 818G/CMSC 498Z Information-Centric Design of
Context-Aware Systems
Using Information Technology to Improve the Quality of Life
Prof. Ashok K Agrawala
© Ashok Agrawala
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2. What is this Course About
Improving the quality of life using information technology
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3. Participants CMSC 818G CMSC 498Z – Coordinator 18 registered
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4. Topics to be Covered Information Dynamics
Context and Context Aware Computing
Location –Determination and Use
Activity Recognition
Context Modeling and Reasoning
Learning from Context
Context-Aware Systems and Middleware
Proactive Computing
Other issues – Security, Privacy,…
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5. Workload Class Presentation and Write-up
Will assign a topic for each class and each student has to pick a topic, present and prepare a 4-5 page summary write up to be distributed to the class before presentation
Class participation and discussions
Project
Midterm
Final
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6. Project Teams of Build Context-Aware Application on Rover
Conference Quality paper
Regular updates to be provided in class
Significant part of the grade.
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7. Methodology Lectures Proof of Concept Demonstrations/Projects
Focused presentation on a topic
Slides posted on the web
Writeup to be distributed before presentation.
Annotate by adding your notes to catch the major points that may come up in discussions after the presentation.
Proof of Concept Demonstrations/Projects
ROVER II
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8. Grading Based on Class participation Weekly activities
Papers/Presentations/ Projects
Exams
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9. Interactions In Class Through “Piazza” Papers Web postings
Individualized …
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10. Rover
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11. Quality of Life What does it mean to you? 18 September 2018
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12. Perspective Individual Organization Family Social Groups
Friends Circle …
Organization
International - UN
Corporation
Government
Non-profit
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13. Class Presentations CMSC818G Students Signup – Available shortly
Augment the reading list by adding 2-5 recent papers
Make slides available for posting on the web
A write up on the topic
Presenter
Others
Date
Topic
Presenter 1
1/26/2017
introduction
Ashok Agrawala 2
1/31/2017
Introduction of Rover
Nick/Andrew 3
2/2/2017
Information Dynamics 4
2/7/2017
Project update 1 5
2/9/2017
 Context 6
2/14/2017
 Situation Awareness 7
2/16/2017
 Indoor Localization 8
2/21/2017
 Outdoor Localization 9
2/23/2017
 Context Modeling 10
2/28/2017
Project update 2 11
3/2/2017
 Ontology based Context Modeling 12
3/7/2017
 Other schemes for Context Modeling 13
3/9/2017
 Context Reasoning I 14
3/14/2017
 Context Reasoning II 15
3/16/2017
 Learning from Context I
3/21/2017
Spring Break
3/23/2017 16
3/28/2017
Project Update 3 17
3/30/2017
 Learning from Context II 18
4/4/2017
 Activity Recognition 19
4/6/2017
 Middleware in context 20
4/11/2017
 User Modeling 21
4/13/2017
 Personality Modeling 22
4/18/2017
Project Update 4 23
4/20/2017
 Planning in context 24
4/25/2017
 Security and Privacy issues 25
4/27/2017
 Proactive Computing 26
5/2/2017
 Service Discovery 27
5/4/2017
 A survey of context 28
5/9/2017
Final Reports 29
5/11/2017
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14. Project Groups Name Phone Email Group Behnezhad, Soheil
Behnezhad, Soheil A
Derakhshan, Mahsa
(240)
Grover, Sachin
Cai, Meng
(240)
Davenport, Marcellus Dante
(301)
Jain, Somay
(301) B
Jiang, Xiaomeng
(301)
Kang, Seokbin
(301)
Dewey, Moira Sarah
(301)
Eckenrod, Ryan Michael
(814)
Kang, Yan
(607) C
Kim, Doowon
(801)
Kowalczyk, Emily
(703)
Hartman, Zachary Craig
(443)
Khatri, Pranav Mukesh
(301)
Lee, Kyungjun
(415) D
Peskov, Denis
(434)
Petrov, Ivan Dimchev
(240)
Koffi, Alphonse Adjegbe
(301)
Patel, Shubham Rameshbhai
(310)
Shafahi, Ali
(301) E
Srinivas, Virinchi
Srinivasan, Shravan
(240)
Tsang, Jonathan
(301)
Wang, Frank
(302)
Wajid, Faizan
(848) F
Wu, Zuxuan
Yang, Xitong
(585)
Woodward, David Isaac
(301)
Zhou, Bill
(240)
Project Groups

15. Project Steps Organize the group Select a topic Project Plan
Lead/Coordinator
Select a topic
Prepare Brief Description
Purpose
Who are the users
What impact it will have
Working title of the paper
Project Plan
Roles
Timeline
Resources Required
Computing
Datasets
Sensors …
Interim Reports
Final Report
Paper Draft

16. Areas Security Education Health Care Recreation Social Interactions
Public Safety – Individual
First Response – Incidence
Emergency Response – Catastrophic events
Education
Elementary
School
College
Post Graduate and Research
Health Care
Physician
Hospital ER
Wellness care – health clubs – exercise
Food and Nutrition
Recreation
Social Interactions
Transportation
E-commerce
Finance
Web
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17. Some Basic Notions Information Interrelationships Context Models
Fundamental Nature
Implications
Interrelationships
Context
Models
Limitations of Physical representations of information
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18. Technological aspects
Processing
Storage
Human Interaction
Communications
Inputs
Sensors
Outputs
Actuations
Commands
Messages
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19. When reading a paper Standard paper questions:
What is the claim of the paper?
What is the key idea of the paper?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the paper?
Information-Centric questions:
What is the purpose of the ‘information’ they are capturing?
What ‘information’ are they capturing?
How are they capturing the ‘information’?
How are they storing the ‘information’?
What ‘contextual information’ are they capturing?
Is the ‘information’ being captured sufficient or useful for the purpose?
What additional ‘information’ could or should be captured?
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