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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 order to cope with highly dynamic environments. In this paper, we present a context model and a context management system able to support a pervasive system infrastructure. This context model is based on the CC/PP standard proposed to support content negotiation between Web browsers and servers. We have defined a set of CC/PP components and attributes that allow to express a variety of context information types and relationships between context descriptions. The paper discusses pros and cons of using CC/PP as a basis for a context model and a context management system.
The work reported in this paper has been funded in part by the Co-operative Research Centre Program through the Department of Industry, Science and Tourism of the Commonwealth Government of Australia.
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Indulska, J., Robinson, R., Rakotonirainy, A., Henricksen, K. (2003). Experiences in Using CC/PP in Context-Aware Systems. In: Chen, MS., Chrysanthis, P.K., Sloman, M., Zaslavsky, A. (eds) Mobile Data Management. MDM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2574. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36389-0_17
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