Enabling the User to Setup Ubiquitous Computing Applications Based on Intelligent Context

Context-aware ubiquitous computing applications thrive in extremely dynamic and heterogeneous environments. When they are delivered to the user preconfigured and without the capability to be adapted, they may fail to satisfy the user´s changing needs and may give the user the feeling that control is taken away from him. In this paper we present how context can be exploited in ubiquitous computing environments in order to enable the user to setup his own application. We will focus on how context can be modelled using ontologies, on the management of accumulated context data and on the reasoning process based on intelligent context and rules defined by the user.