Abstract :
The holy grail of search is intent; of browsing, scent; and of classification, meaning. Each of these pillar technologies of the information age therefore depends critically on extracting and mining human context. Context awareness is the discipline that brings together technologies for extracting data about the larger human context and reasoning with that data at scale. It seeks to make the benefits of contextualization as pervasive in our lives as technology itself.
Keywords :
Classification; Context modeling; Information resources; Information retrieval; Search engines; Search methods; Special issues and sections; computational and artificial intelligence; context awareness; context-aware services; information filtering; information retrieval; pervasive computing; recommender systems; ubiquitous computing;
