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Context-awareness is a feature of more and more applications, which adds further requirements to be taken into account in the implementation process. Though accepted approaches for software development exist, no accepted way for the inclusion of context has been established yet. An essential part of developing context based systems is to analyze and conceptualize the elements of the specific context required for the application under development, including their dependencies and mechanism of use. This activity of context modeling forms an important part of the system’s specification, since it identifies relevant aspects of the application environment in a representation adequate for the modeling purpose. Within this paper we aim at closing this gap by introducing an approach for context modeling for the utilization in context-aware applications, providing a structure guiding through the process and illustrating it by examples as a reference for further projects.
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Sandkuhl, K., Borchardt, U. (2014). How to Identify the Relevant Elements of “Context” in Context-Aware Information Systems?. In: Johansson, B., Andersson, B., Holmberg, N. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11370-8_21
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