@inbook{d36a200868ad4844844f62649a538922,
title = "Concepts and architectures for mobile context-aware applications",
abstract = "Context-awareness has been investigated for almost a decade and is considered as a convenient and desirable feature in distributed mobile systems since it allows these systems to benefit from the changes in their users{\textquoteright} context to dynamically tailor services to their users{\textquoteright} current situation and needs. This chapter addresses the research results and challenges of designing a flexible infrastructure to support the development of mobile context-aware applications. We discuss relevant context-awareness concepts, define architectural patterns on context-awareness, present the design of a target infrastructure, and discuss some related research and research trends. The context-aware infrastructure described in this chapter follows the principles of service-oriented architectures in which the dynamic customization of context-aware mobile services is specified by means of application behavior rules that are interpreted and applied by the infrastructure at runtime.",
keywords = "EWI-13556, IR-62477, METIS-251214, SCS-Services",
author = "{Dockhorn Costa}, P. and {Ferreira Pires}, Luis and {van Sinderen}, {Marten J.}",
year = "2008",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "978-1-60566-046-2",
publisher = "Information Science Reference",
number = "Supplement",
pages = "783--803",
editor = "I.K. Ibrahim",
booktitle = "Handbook of research on mobile multimedia",
}