Context Awareness
Definitions
Term: Context Awareness |
Domain: Cross-cutting issues | ||||
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Engineering and Design (KM-ED) |
Adaptation and Monitoring (KM-AM) |
Quality Definition, Negotiation and
Assurance (KM-QA) |
Generic (domain independent) |
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D o m a i n : L a y e r s |
Business Process Management (KM-BPM) |
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Service Composition and
Coordination (KM-SC) |
A system is context-aware if it uses context to provide relevant information and/or services to the user, where relevancy depends on the user’s task. [Dey&Abowd 2000] {GEN: Context} |
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Service Infrastructure (KM-SI) |
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Generic (domain independent) |
Context awareness is defined complementary to location awareness. Whereas location may serve as a determinant for resident processes, context may be applied more flexibly with mobile computing with any moving entities, especially with bearers of smart communicators. [Wikipedia] |
Competencies
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UniHH: Context Management and Mobile Computing http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/information; Winfried Lamersdorf, Sonja Zaplata, Kristof Hamann
Scenarios
WINERY-S-1: Collaborative Transport Chain Control. When noticing a deviation of the measured values from the estimated range (malfunction), a predefined process reacts to the situation. [PO-IA-3.2.1]
References
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[Dey&Abowd 2000] Dey AK, Abowd GD. Towards a better understanding of context and context-awareness. CHI’2000 Workshop on the What, Who, Where, When, and How of Context-Awareness, 2000, ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gvu/tr/1999/99-22.pdf
- [PO-IA-3.2.1] "Initial Definition of Validation Scenarios"
- [Wikipedia] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_awareness