Context Management for Distributed and Dynamic Context-Aware Computing

Research in context-aware computing has produced a number of middleware systems for context management. However, development of ubiquitous context-aware applications is still a challenge because most current middleware systems are still focused on isolated and static context-aware environments. Context-aware environments are inherently dynamic as a result of occasional additions or upgrade of sensors, applications or context inference mechanisms.

Context Management for Distributed and Dynamic Context-Aware Computing proposes a novel architecture for context management based on the concept of context domains, allowing applications to keep context interests across distributed context management systems. The authors describe a distributed middleware that implements the aforementioned concepts, without compromising scalability and efficiency of context access.

• Context Awareness
• Context Evolution
• Mobile Applications
• Open and Dynamic Environments
• Pervasive Computing

• Instituto de Informatica, Universidade Federal de Goias, Setor Jao, Goiania, Brazil

  Ricardo Couto Antunes Rocha

• Department of Informatics, Pontifica Universidade Catolica - Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Markus Endler

Policies and ethics