Comprehensive structured context profiles (CSCP): design and experiences

Author

Buchholz, Sven ; Hamann, Thomas ; Hübsch, Gerald

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Dresden Univ. of Technol., Germany

fYear

2004

fDate

14-17 March 2004

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

47

Abstract

In dynamic heterogeneous environments, such as pervasive computing, context-aware adaptation is a key concept to meet the varying requirements of different clients. To enable such functionality, context information must be gathered and eventually presented to the application performing the adaptation. Therefore, a common representation format for the context information is required. We introduce a novel representation language for context information: comprehensive structured context profiles (CSCP). CSCP is based on the resource description framework (RDF) and is designed to be comprehensive and thoroughly structured to describe the entire context of mobile sessions. Besides the design of CSCP, we describe our experiences with CSCP in a running system, a mobility portal for context-aware adaptive access to email and Web information services.

Keywords

Internet; information filters; portals; ubiquitous computing; Web information services; comprehensive structured context profile design; context-aware adaptive email access; dynamic heterogeneous environment; mobility portal; pervasive computing; Application software; Computer science; Context; Context-aware services; Information filtering; Information filters; Pervasive computing; Portals; Resource description framework; Transcoding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2004. Proceedings of the Second IEEE Annual Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2106-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2004.1276903

Filename

1276903