Title
Supporting generalized context interactions
Abstract
In context-aware computing, applications' behavior is driven by a continually-changing environment. Mobile computing poses unique challenges to context-sensitive applications and middleware, including the ability to run on resource-poor devices like PDAs and the necessity to limit assumptions about the network. Though middlewares exist to provide context-awareness to applications, they do not address the limitations inherent in dynamic mobile environments. This paper discusses a lightweight approach to context-sensitivity that takes into account these considerations. We explore the use of modularization to tailor service discovery policies for applications, as well as leveraging existing language constructs to simplify creation and aggregation of different context types. We also discuss an implementation of these concepts, along with three sample applications that can automatically propagate changes in context to clients running on devices from mobile phones to desktop computers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/11407386_8
SEM
Keywords
Field
DocType
existing language construct,context-aware computing,continually-changing environment,different context type,generalized context interaction,mobile phone,desktop computer,mobile computing,dynamic mobile environment,propagate change,lightweight approach,middleware,mobile computer
Mobile computing,Middleware,Mobile search,Computer science,Language construct,Real-time computing,Modular programming,Code reuse,Mobile Web,Service discovery,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3437
0302-9743
3-540-25328-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.60
21
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gregory Hackmann156533.55
Christine Julien267765.29
Jamie Payton316625.37
Gruia-Catalin Roman43148290.45