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MIMOSA: context-aware adaptation for ubiquitous web access

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The ubiquitous computing scenario is characterized by heterogeneity of devices used to access services, and by frequent changes in the user’s context. Hence, adaptation according to the user’s context and the used devices is necessary to allow mobile users to efficiently exploit Internet-based services. In this paper, we present a distributed framework, named MIMOSA, that couples a middleware for context-awareness with an intermediary-based architecture for content adaptation. MIMOSA provides an effective and efficient solution for the adaptation of Internet services on the basis of a comprehensive notion of context, by means of techniques for aggregating context data from distributed sources, deriving complex contextual situations from raw sensor data, evaluating adaptation policies, and solving possible conflicts. The middleware allows programmers to modularly build complex adaptive services starting from simple ones, and includes tools for assisting the user in declaring her preferences, as well as mechanisms for detecting incorrect system behaviors due to a wrong choice of adaptation policies. The effectiveness and efficiency of MIMOSA are shown through the development of a prototype adaptive service, and by extensive experimental evaluations.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica ed Applicazioni “R.M. Capocelli”, Università di Salerno, 84084, Fisciano, Salerno, Italy

    Delfina Malandrino & Vittorio Scarano

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Francesca Mazzoni & Michele Colajanni

  3. Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Daniele Riboni & Claudio Bettini

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Malandrino, D., Mazzoni, F., Riboni, D. et al. MIMOSA: context-aware adaptation for ubiquitous web access. Pers Ubiquit Comput 14, 301–320 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-009-0232-9

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