Title :
Context-Aware Computing: A Guide for the Pervasive Computing Community
Author :
Mostéfaoui, Ghita Kouadri ; Pasquier-Rocha, Jacques ; Brézillon, Patrick
Author_Institution :
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Abstract :
There is a high interest on context-aware computing expressed by the pervasive computing community, which considers context as a key to design more adaptive applications. Due to this interest, a huge amount of contributions have been made in the field as we can notice from the increasing amount of publications on context and context-aware computing. However, the user interested in integrating context in its specific application will rapidly find himself in a jungle of various tools and techniques. This paper aims at structuring this information by providing a survey on the main context-aware categorization, acquisition and modeling techniques. "Main" refers to the most promising techniques in terms of their genericity in a way that they can be used in various application domains. This work tends to provide a guide for the pervasive computing community in order to select the best technique to use in a specific application or -more interesting- to justify the development of a new one.
Keywords :
Access protocols; Communication standards; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Dictionaries; Humans; Pervasive computing; Plugs; Runtime environment; Software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Services, 2004. ICPS 2004. IEEE/ACS International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2535-0
DOI :
10.1109/PERSER.2004.14