Building and Operating Context-aware Services for Groups of Users

Enabling Context-aware Services for Mobile Users

We present an architecture that offers a set of generic services for building context-aware mobile applications. We present two realized prototypes that recognize user’s context, learn his routines, use context information to constrain service discovery as well as to find relevant information, and manage connectivity on the basis of the given policy. Further, the user interfaces and application...

Context-aware Services for Multiple-Users

This paper presents a framework for providing contextaware services in public spaces, e.g., museums. The framework is unique among other existing context-aware systems in implementing services as mobile agents and supporting groups of users in addition to single users. It maintains a location model as containment relationships between digital representations, called virtual counterparts, corres...

Context-aware Services for Groups of People

Architectural Requirements for Building Context-Aware Services Platforms

Context-aware platforms aim at providing support to application designers to conceive their context-aware applications using services, mechanisms and interfaces that shield them from the complexity introduced by handling contextual information. This paper explores the essential requirements to be satisfied by context-aware service platforms and proposes a definition of a generic architecture su...

A service-oriented middleware for building context-aware services

The advancement of wireless networks and mobile computing necessitates more advanced applications and services to be built with context-awareness enabled and adaptability to their changing contexts. Today, building context-aware services is a complex task due to the lack of an adequate infrastructure support in pervasive computing environments. In this article, we propose a ServiceOriented Cont...