Context and Environment Report: Smart Environments and Infrastructure

This report examines the concepts of smart environments and infrastructure, focusing on context-aware systems and their applications. It analyzes two key papers: one by Anind K. Dey, discussing the necessity of smart environments to enhance user experiences, and another by L. Dauelsberg and D. Powell, which addresses critical infrastructure protection and decision support systems. The report highlights the importance of context in building effective applications and the need for comprehensive approaches to measure security risks and vulnerabilities in cyber infrastructure. It emphasizes the significance of understanding investment options and policy consequences for ensuring robust infrastructure security. The report provides insights into the dynamics of interconnected infrastructures and offers a framework for understanding the challenges and opportunities in creating intelligent and secure environments.

Context and environment

The chosen scholarly article for this paper is a context-based infrastructure for smart
environments, and another is a critical infrastructure protection decision support system. The first
article in this paper is written by Anind K. Dey, and Daniel Salber or another paper is written by
L. Dauelsberg, and D. Powell.
The first paper represents the necessity of smart environment. It concludes that smart
environment is required to provide effective services to occupants
(https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/3406/99-39.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y).
Generally, it can be said that it is necessary for every organization to identify their context and
determine what actions need to take to satisfy the identified context. It can be said that goal of
the smart environment not only supports the activities but also enhance the abilities of occupants
in performing different organizational tasks. Context is defined as information that is required to
utilize a particular situation of an entity. Furthermore, it can be said that the most important
problem faced by every organization is building and executing effective context-aware
applications. If the organization wants to resolve such problem, they can build applications on
the basis of ad-hoc manner.
The second paper represents the dynamics of couple separate infrastructure and individual
infrastructure as per their interdependencies
(http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2005/proceed/papers/LECLA332.pdf) . On the other
hand, it also defines the future and current cyber or physical threat environment. It can be said
that organization requires a comprehensive approach to measuring security risks and detect
available vulnerabilities in its cyber infrastructure. Furthermore, it can be suggested that the
organizations should understand the investment options and consequences of policies before

taking any decision regarding security system environment. This may be helpful in providing
proper infrastructure security by avoiding all available vulnerabilities.

References
Bush, B., Dauelsberg, L., & Powell, D. (2005). Critical Infrastructure Protection Decision Support System
(CIP/DSS) Project Overview. Retrieved from
http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2005/proceed/papers/LECLA332.pdf
Dey, A. & Abowd, G. Cite a Website - Cite This For Me. Smartech.gatech.edu. Retrieved from
https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/3406/99-39.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y