Unearthing design patterns to support context-awareness

The lack of structured methodologies and software engineering efforts on designing the support of context-awareness in pervasive systems hinders the potential advantages of analyzing and reusing other practitioners´ experience on solving common problems. This paper proposes to exploit design patterns to identify and capture common aspects of various design solutions. Specifically, we reverse-architect existing context-awareness support systems and unearth design patterns that have been implicitly (and rarely explicitly) adopted to solve similar problems