Context-Aware Platform for Integrated Mobile Services

Today smart phones integrate many sensors and provide large computing capacities. They enable the shift towards massive quantities of real-time information becoming access push rather than demand pull on a global case. In this we describe CAPIM, a platform to support such a paradigm. It integrates services to monitor and a context for adapt with the user´s context using sensors and capabilities of smart phones, together with online social data. It integrates context-aware services that are dynamically configurable and use the user´s location, identity, preferences, profile, and relations with individuals, as well as capabilities of the mobile devices to manifest themselves in many different ways and re-invent themselves over and over again. Such services aggregate and semantically organize the context data. They react based on dynamically defined context-oriented workflows, and the platform includes an execution engine that supports context-aware actions for orientation, information, and recommendation. We describe the design of our system, the challenges that need to be solved, and the evaluation methodology we are planning to adopt.