| CASS | CASS stands for Creating Awareness with Subscription Services. The CASS strategy presents a set of guidelines for providing users with useful and usable awareness tools and awareness information. |
| Ubiquitous Awareness Environment | A software/hardware/human environment supporting the capture of and distribution of awareness information, where the information can come from anywhere (a wide variety of sources in both physical and on-line environments), and can be sent anywhere (to a wide variety of awareness tools that exist both on desktop computerse and on mobile devices that can be used in many different environments). |
| CASSIUS | The CASS Information Update Server. A notification server that implements the CASS strategy for distributing awareness information. |
| CASSandra | A toolkit for building software that work with CASSIUS. Currently supports Java. |
| Information Source | Applications, servers, virtual environments, tools for monitoring the real world, print drivers, any software that has state or information that people (or other systems) can benefit from being aware of is a potential information source. It does not truly become an information source until it starts sending notifications to the notification server. |
| Notification | A report describing an event such as a change in state, change in data, some type of event which the information source developer considered to be of potential significance to other users and systems. |
| EventName | An EventName refers to the part of the notification which names the nature of the changes to the information source's state. For example, EventNames that might be sent out by a WebDAV server are "Get", "Post", "Rename", "Put", etc... |
| Generic Event | EventName is the application specific name of the event, while the GenericEventName is a generalized event name that can be interpreted by users and awareness tools that have limited or no understanding of the activity or nature of the information source. Generic Events currently consist of:
- Activate
- Deactivate
- Increase
- Decrease
- Change
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| Awareness Style | Defined more fully on its own page. Every awareness tool has a style of presentation spanning many dimensions which determines the types of work environments it is appropriate for. Support of diverse awareness styles is a critical goal for an awareness technology which spans diverse users. |
| Objects/ObjectID | An information source monitors aspects of its data and send out notifications of changes to that data. The data that is monitored is refered to as monitored objects, or just objects. An object can be a datastructure, a concept, part of the data of a system (the text in a word processor, an image in a web camera), a configuration of a system (the port number of a web server), a quantification of performance (load or efficiency on a server), etc... An ObjectID is a unique identifier for that object. For purposes of this work, the unique identifier is defined by the developer of the information source. |
