...Panteleimon Rodis Purpose This paper aims to present a methodology for defining and modeling context-awareness and describing efficiently the interactions between systems, applications and their context. Also, the relation of modern context-aware systems with distributed computation...

... an app as contextual information, and how each app can identify and store contextual information. Design/methodology/approach Contexts are modeled as hierarchical objects that can be stored and shared by applications using native mechanisms. A proof-of-concept implementation of the model...

... basis for semantic place information inference and mobile user behavior modeling. Chapter 4 goes through our experimental setup and Chapter 5 presents and discusses the results. Chapter 6 concludes the article. Mobile end-user context is considered an important element in examining and modeling...

... context-based energy saving strategy for mobile location-based services. Findings – The paper reveals the positive implications in terms of energy consumption measured in the course of exhaustive tests for iOS and Android devices and discusses accuracy issues and potential workarounds, especially...

... SIG was drawn keeping the context of the elderly user fallen in the park. If, however, the user changes the priority, letting cost be a low priority item and further, in case of there being no emergency contacts nearby, for prompt response, then, calling 911 becomes the best option. Thus...

...Penghe Chen; Shubhabrata Sen; Hung Keng Pung; Wenwei Xue; Wai Choong Wong Purpose The rapid proliferation of mobile context aware applications has resulted in an increased research interest towards developing specialized context data management strategies for mobile entities. The purpose...

...Tore Fjellheim; Stephen Milliner; Marlon Dumas Mobile devices have received much research interest in recent years. Mobility raises new issues such as more dynamic context, limited computing resources, and frequent disconnections. A middleware infrastructure for mobile computing must handle all...

...Patrícia Dockhorn Costa; Luís Ferreira Pires; Marten J. van Sinderen Context‐aware services platforms aim at supporting the handling of contextual information in order to provide better user‐tailored services. This paper proposes a novel services platform architecture to support mobile context...

..., we show our efforts in developing a smart hyperspace of ubiquitous care for kids, called UbicKids. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Smart world Ubiquitous intelligence Space Hyperspace Context Trust Kids care UbicKids ­J. PERVASIVE COMPUT. & COMM. 1 (1), MARCH 2005. c...