Context-aware systems offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for
end users by gathering context data and adapting systems behaviour accordingly …

As computing becomes more pervasive, the nature of applications must change accordingly.
In particular, applications must become more flexible in order to respond to highly dynamic …

Recently, cellular network operators have been showing interest in offering Context-Aware
Services (CAS) in the future. For a service to be context-aware it must be able to use context …

Supporting the individual user in his working, learning, or information access is one of the
main goals of user modeling. Personal or group user models make it possible to represent …

Future pervasive systems will be based on ubiquitous, often mobile, interconnected devices
supporting mobile users in their computing tasks. These systems need to be context-aware …

In this paper, we present a context framework that facilitates the development and
deployment of context-aware adaptable Web services. Web services are provided with …

It has been predicted that the next phase of electronic business growth will be in the area of
mobile e-commerce. The translation from" e" to" m" commerce, however, is not a …

Context-awareness refers to systems that unobtrusively adapt to the environment of their
users on the basis of context information, popularly known as context-aware systems. One …

Middleware support for pervasive context-aware systems relieves context-aware
applications from dealing with the complexity of context-specific operations such as context …

Pervasive computing environments are dynamic and heterogeneous. They are required to
be self-managing and autonomic, demanding minimal user's guidance. In pervasive …