This paper describes the Platform For User Centric Design and Evaluation of Context-Aware Systems for rapid evaluation of context-aware entities using Virtual Reality. Specifically it details an experimental evaluation of the SimCon (Simulated Context) Tool Set for configuring and placing simulated context sources within a virtual environment. As a basis for this work, a high level model of the...

Technological progress has made it possible to interact with computer systems and applications anywhere and any time. It is crucial that these applications are able to adapt to the user, as a person, and to its current situation, whatever that is. Contextual information and a mechanism to reason about it have demonstrated an important potential to provide solutions in this respect. This paper a...

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

This paper presents a multi-agent model to support decisionmaking in organizations. The model is characterized by being interactive, distributed, and incremental and by the use of cognitive maps to represent the knowledge of decision-making actors. The main proposition is to consider the context of concepts belonging to cognitive maps in a way that it represents agent’s mental states, allowing ...

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...