Interoperating Context Discovery Mechanisms

Tom Broens; Remco Poortinga; Jasper Aarts

doi:10.5220/0001348400750084

Interoperating Context Discovery Mechanisms

Tom Broens, Remco Poortinga, Jasper Aarts

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Context-Aware applications adapt their behaviour to the current situation of the user. This information, for instance user location and user availability, is called context information. Context is delivered by distributed context sources that need to be discovered before they can be used to retrieve context. Currently, multiple context discovery mechanisms exist, exhibiting heterogeneous capabilities (e.g. communication mechanisms, and data formats), which can be available to context-aware applications at arbitrary moments during the ap-plication’s lifespan. In this paper, we discuss a middleware mechanism that en-ables a (mobile) context-aware application to interoperate transparently with different context discovery mechanisms available at run-time. The goal of the proposed mechanism is to hide the heterogeneity and availability of context discovery mechanisms for context-aware applications, thereby facilitating their development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing, ACT4SOC 2007
Editors	Marten van Sinderen
Place of Publication	Portugal
Publisher	INSTICC PRESS
Pages	75-84
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-989-8111-08-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0001348400750084
Publication status	Published - Jul 2007
Event	1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing, ACT4SOC 2007 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 22 Jul 2007 → 22 Jul 2007 Conference number: 1 http://www.icsoft.org/ICSOFT2007/ACT4SOC.htm

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Workshop	1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing, ACT4SOC 2007
Abbreviated title	ACT4SOC
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	22/07/07 → 22/07/07
Internet address	http://www.icsoft.org/ICSOFT2007/ACT4SOC.htm

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EWI-10355
METIS-241728
IR-64148

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Broens, T, Poortinga, R & Aarts, J 2007, Interoperating Context Discovery Mechanisms. in M van Sinderen (ed.), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing, ACT4SOC 2007. INSTICC PRESS, Portugal, pp. 75-84, 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing, ACT4SOC 2007, Barcelona, Spain, 22/07/07. https://doi.org/10.5220/0001348400750084

Interoperating Context Discovery Mechanisms. / Broens, Tom; Poortinga, Remco; Aarts, Jasper.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing, ACT4SOC 2007. ed. / Marten van Sinderen. Portugal: INSTICC PRESS, 2007. p. 75-84.

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