A Context Information Center for M-commerce Applications

The ability to reason from context allows a large amount of implicit information to be conveyed with a small amount of explicit descriptions. If this ability can be provided to a context information center for a M-commerce application, this application can then be regarded as a context-aware M-commerce application that can adjust its behaviors according to the available implicit information in the environment. This paper proposes a context information center to support M-commerce applications. In this context information center, five types of context information are taken into account and a unified format, RDF, is used to present the context information.