A framework for mobile, context-aware applications

The heterogeneous, dynamic nature of current mobile environments necessitates that all system components that form part of a personalization framework should be context aware. This necessitates the development of a framework of distributed context handlers to derive meaning from context and combine it with application logic. Towards this aim, this paper presents a Service Context Manager (SCM) framework that handles all the stages of context gathering, processing and reasoning to enable personalized service presentation. The validation of the approach is shown through application use cases.