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Context-awareness advances have evidenced novel challenges related to context management and context-awareness usability. Most of these problems can be supported through general context attributes, i.e. properties that describe issues of the context itself, what we call meta-context. We can identify similar attributes in a variety of proposals to enhance context-aware systems. However, these attributes are usually managed internally. A common and formal model that describes the significant context attributes, their relationships and semantic axioms helps to separate the meta-context from the context model. Moreover, we propose a specific Semantic-Web-based architecture to manage the meta-context at run-time and offers related functionalities to external context-aware applications.
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Hervás, R., Fontecha, J., Villarreal, V., Bravo, J. (2011). Meta-context: Putting Context-Awareness into Context. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowlege-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23863-5_30
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