RIBEIRO, F. Reinaldo; METRÔLHO, José (2012) - An autonomic system to characterize the physical and organizational context of public spaces. In Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, 7, Madrid, 20-23 de junho. [S.l.]: IEEE. p. 1-4
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Title
An autonomic system to characterize the physical and organizational context of public spaces
Traditionally, context-aware applications are developed
using one of the following approaches: each application
communicates directly with sources of context information;
applications are developed with the aid of reusable libraries for
processing context information or applications have their own
context models. These approaches not only require effort on the
part of those who develop them, but also create dependency
between the developed context-aware applications and the
systems developed for obtaining and providing the context
information, thus hindering their reuse in other applications. In
this paper we present a system that autonomously characterizes
the physical, social and organizational context of a public space
and delivers this information to context-aware applications.
Experiments show that it provides relevant and useful context
information that can be used by context-aware applications to
improve their services.
