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Rethinking Context Models

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops (OTM 2009)

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Since the first context-aware applications were designed, context modelling has played a central role. During the last decade many different approaches were proposed to model context, ranging from ad-hoc models to extensions to relational databases or ontologies. In this paper we propose to take a step back and analyse those approaches using the seminal views presented by Paul Dourish in his work (What we talk about when we talk about context). Based on that analysis we propose a set of guidelines that any context model should follow.

This paper has been partially supported by the SeCyT under the project PICT 32536.

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  1. LIFIA. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

    Emiliano Pérez, Andrés Fortier, Gustavo Rossi & Silvia Gordillo

  2. DSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, España

    Andrés Fortier

  3. CONICET,  

    Andrés Fortier & Gustavo Rossi

  4. CICPBA,  

    Silvia Gordillo

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  2. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

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  3. DEBII - CBS, De Laeter Way, Curtin University of Technology, 6102, Bentley, WA, Australia

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Pérez, E., Fortier, A., Rossi, G., Gordillo, S. (2009). Rethinking Context Models. In: Meersman, R., Herrero, P., Dillon, T. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops. OTM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_17

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