Towards a better understanding of context-aware applications

With the new technological advances and strong move towards Future Internet and Internet as a Platform a new environment is emerging. This environment is generative, social, strongly interactive and collaborative, so users play a fundamental role in it. Business applications are simplifying, webifying and getting more user-centric. In this environment, context and context-awareness plays a fundamental role, as context gives meaning and accurately describes the situation of an user. This paper introduces the basis for a new research methodology that aims to address and visualize the topic of context and context-awareness from a holistic point of view, by means of text mining and text clustering.