An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users
Mobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of processing power and interaction capabilities than traditional computers, and the often distracting and time-constricted...
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| description | Mobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of processing power and interaction capabilities than traditional computers, and the often distracting and time-constricted scenarios in which we use them do not help in alleviating these limitations. Context-awareness is a valuable technique to address these issues, as it enables to adapt application behaviour to each situation. In this paper we present a context management infrastructure for mobile environments, aimed at controlling context information life-cycle in this kind of scenarios, with the main goal of enabling application and services to adapt their behaviour to better meet end-user needs. This infrastructure relies on semantic technologies and open standards to improve interoperability, and is based on a central element, the context manager. This element acts as a central context repository and takes most of the computational burden derived from dealing with this kind of information, thus relieving from these tasks to more resource-scarce devices in the system. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7cd29e545efd49d89c4a094d9bc6cdc42022-12-22T04:01:21ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202013-07-011389635965210.3390/s130809635An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile UsersAna B. LagoPablo CurielMobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of processing power and interaction capabilities than traditional computers, and the often distracting and time-constricted scenarios in which we use them do not help in alleviating these limitations. Context-awareness is a valuable technique to address these issues, as it enables to adapt application behaviour to each situation. In this paper we present a context management infrastructure for mobile environments, aimed at controlling context information life-cycle in this kind of scenarios, with the main goal of enabling application and services to adapt their behaviour to better meet end-user needs. This infrastructure relies on semantic technologies and open standards to improve interoperability, and is based on a central element, the context manager. This element acts as a central context repository and takes most of the computational burden derived from dealing with this kind of information, thus relieving from these tasks to more resource-scarce devices in the system.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/8/9635context managementsemantic technologiespervasive computingmobilecomputingcontext-aware services |
| spellingShingle | Ana B. Lago Pablo Curiel An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users Sensors context management semantic technologies pervasive computing mobilecomputing context-aware services |
| title | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
| title_full | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
| title_fullStr | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
| title_short | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
| title_sort | infrastructure to enable lightweight context awareness for mobile users |
| topic | context management semantic technologies pervasive computing mobilecomputing context-aware services |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/13/8/9635 |
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