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Context-Aware Adaptation in an Ecology of Applications

Context-Aware Adaptation in an Ecology of Applications

Davy Preuveneers, Koen Victor, Yves Vanrompay, Peter Rigole, Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 25
ISBN13: 9781605662909|ISBN10: 1605662909|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616925147|EISBN13: 9781605662916
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-290-9.ch001
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Preuveneers, Davy, et al. "Context-Aware Adaptation in an Ecology of Applications." Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications, edited by Dragan Stojanovic, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-290-9.ch001

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Preuveneers, D., Victor, K., Vanrompay, Y., Rigole, P., & Pinheiro, M. K. (2009). Context-Aware Adaptation in an Ecology of Applications. In D. Stojanovic (Ed.), Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications (pp. 1-25). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-290-9.ch001

Chicago

Preuveneers, Davy, et al. "Context-Aware Adaptation in an Ecology of Applications." In Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications, edited by Dragan Stojanovic, 1-25. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-290-9.ch001

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Abstract

In recent years, many researchers have studied context-awareness to support non-intrusive adaptability of context-aware applications. Context-aware applications benefit from emerging technology that connects everyday objects and provides opportunities to collect and use context information from various sources. Context-awareness helps to adapt continuously to new situations and to turn a static computing environment into a dynamic ecology of smart and proactive applications. In this chapter, we present our framework that manages and uses context information to adapt applications and the content they provide. We show how application adaptation can be handled at the composition level, by reconfiguring, redeploying and rewiring components, e.g. to fall back into reduced functionality mode when redeploying an application on a handheld. The key features of our context-aware adaptation framework notonly include local adaptations of context-aware applications and content, but also the addressing of context in large scale networks and the contextaware redeployment of running applications in a distributed setting. We discuss how adaptation is handled along various levels of abstraction (user, content, application, middleware, network) and illustrate the flexibility of context-aware content and application adaptation by means of a realistic use case scenario.

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