Model-Driven Development of context-aware services: Issues, techniques and review

The development of context-aware applications has been the subject of many research works in ubiquitous computing. As the modern human is getting more and more mobile, carrying an ever increasing amount of computational power around and having access to online services, the need for personalized and adaptive information services is rapidly increasing. Thus, the field of context-aware services has been, during recent years, a field of intense research and has given rise to several approaches. However, in most of the approaches there is a lack of generic methodology for formalizing the development activity for this type of services and, consequently, this activity is very cumbersome and time consuming. Recently, some research works have advocated Model-Driven Development (MDD) as an approach for context-aware services development. In this paper we aim to review these works and their main features.