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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3946)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
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Computing in context has become a necessity in modern and intelligent IT - plications. With the use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing, context-awareness has become a major issue. However, context and context-awareness are crucial not only for mobile and ubiquitous computing. They are also vital for spanning various application areas, such as collaborative softwareand Web engineering,personaldigital assistantsand peer-to-peer inf- mation sharing, health care work?ow and patient control, and adaptive games and e-learning solutions. In these areas, context serves as a major source for reasoning, decision making, and adaptation, as it covers not only application knowledge but also environmental knowledge.Likewise, modeling and retrieving context is an important part of modern knowledge management processes. In addition, context can play a role in determining what information a s- tem should provide. This is important for supporting the users of automated or intelligent systems, for tasks such as explaining how solutions are found, what the system is doing, and why it operates in a certain way. The methods applied and the advice given have to be explained, so that the user can understand the process and agree on decisions. Context is equally important for deciding when to provide uncertain or blurred information, e.g., when using a tracking system in situations for which either revealing the current position, or denying access to it, would have adverse e?ects. In this wide range of applications, context is now more than just location.
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Modeling and Retrieval of Context
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Book Title: Modeling and Retrieval of Context
Book Subtitle: Second International Workshop, MRC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 31-August 1, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Editors: Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz, David B. Leake
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11740674
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-33587-0Published: 18 April 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-33588-7Published: 26 April 2006
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 152
Topics: Systems Theory, Control, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities