In recent years data-aware systems have been proposed as a comprehensive framework to model complex business workflows by considering data and processes as equally relevant tenets of the system

The success and sustainability of informal learning support at the workplace largely depends on motivational, social, and cultural aspects of the involved individuals, teams, and organizations. In this paper, we present our empirical findings from a large-scale interview-based study on those aspects with respect to knowledge development in companies. We draw some conclusions that influence the ...

The process of selection, configuration and consumption of tourist information services is a complex task for the user. This is not least since existing tools most often focus on supporting either the preor post-trip phase or the on-trip phase itself by providing context-aware services. The goal of this thesis is to establish a framework that makes pre-trip services context-aware, thus reducing...

The progress in context-aware systems is predominantly technology-driven, leading to innovations in technology-savvy industries while having almost no impact on other industries, such as the insurance sector. In this paper we introduce a novel, key player-oriented framework that explicitly takes into account the (business) value for each player being relevant when implementing a particular cont...

This paper describes a conceptual model for reasoning about context. The concepts introduced here may be applied in designing context-aware services and modelling context-sensitive interactions between context-aware systems. We introduce the concept of “primitive context” as the basic context abstraction. The concept of “primitive context” effectively captures the notion of “context” and provid...

This paper describes a conceptual model for reasoning about context. The concepts introduced here may be applied in designing context-aware services and modelling contextsensitive interactions between context-aware systems. We introduce the concept of “primitive context” as the basic context abstraction. The concept of “primitive context” effectively captures the notion of “context” and provide...

This issue of JAISE is focused on the theme of Context Awareness. This topic is a key concept in the development of many Ambient Intelligence systems and as such we expect this issue to be well received by the community at large. While the topic of context-aware design has been on the technical agenda of many research groups for more than a decade, there are still several outstanding challenges...

Context awareness offers a powerful vision that aims to build novel services that adapt to the situation of the user. Context-aware frameworks provide functionalities for gathering data from sensors and for processing this data to interpret the user’s context. This context information is further used to adapt the behavior of services. Adaptation is often performed by applying predefined rules t...