An approach to Collaborative Context Prediction

Context prediction approaches forecast future contexts based on known context patterns to adapt e.g., services in advance. In the case of the user´s context history not providing suitable context information for the observed context pattern, to the best of our knowledge context prediction algorithms will fail to forecast the appropriate future context. To overcome the gap of missing context information in the user´s context history, we propose the Collaborative Context Prediction (CCP) approach. CCP utilises the collaborative characteristics of existing recommendation systems of social networks. To evaluate the CCP method an experimental comparison of the proposed method against the local Alignment context predictor is carried out.