A survey on context-aware systems

@article{citeulike:2688300, abstract = {Context-aware systems offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for end users by gathering context data and adapting systems behaviour accordingly. Especially in combination with mobile devices, these mechanisms are of high value and are used to increase usability tremendously. In this paper, we present common architecture principles of context-aware systems and derive a layered conceptual design framework to explain the different elements common to most context-aware architectures. Based on these design principles, we introduce various existing context-aware systems focusing on context-aware middleware and frameworks, which ease the development of context-aware applications. We discuss various approaches and analyse important aspects in context-aware computing on the basis of the presented systems.}, author = {Baldauf, Matthias and Dustdar, Schahram and Rosenberg, Florian }, citeulike-article-id = {2688300}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJAHUC.2007.014070}, issn = {1743-8225}, journal = {International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing}, keywords = {aware, context}, month = {June}, pages = {263--277}, posted-at = {2008-04-19 12:10:06}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Inderscience}, title = {A survey on context-aware systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJAHUC.2007.014070}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2688300 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2688300 TI - A survey on context-aware systems JF - International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing SP - 263 EP - 277 PB - Inderscience SN - 1743-8225 N2 - Context-aware systems offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for end users by gathering context data and adapting systems behaviour accordingly. Especially in combination with mobile devices, these mechanisms are of high value and are used to increase usability tremendously. In this paper, we present common architecture principles of context-aware systems and derive a layered conceptual design framework to explain the different elements common to most context-aware architectures. Based on these design principles, we introduce various existing context-aware systems focusing on context-aware middleware and frameworks, which ease the development of context-aware applications. We discuss various approaches and analyse important aspects in context-aware computing on the basis of the presented systems. KW - aware KW - context AU - Baldauf, Matthias AU - Dustdar, Schahram AU - Rosenberg, Florian PY - 2007/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJAHUC.2007.014070 ER -