Providing Architectural Support for Building Context-Aware Applications

Architectural Requirements for Building Context-Aware Services Platforms

Context-aware platforms aim at providing support to application designers to conceive their context-aware applications using services, mechanisms and interfaces that shield them from the complexity introduced by handling contextual information. This paper explores the essential requirements to be satisfied by context-aware service platforms and proposes a definition of a generic architecture su...

Supporting Development of Context-aware Applications Using Semantic Space Toolkit

In order to facilitate rapid development of context-aware applications, there is a need for architectural support in the entire context processing flow, and improved programming abstractions that ease the prototyping. In this paper, a toolkit called Semantic Space, is proposed to support rapid prototyping of context-aware applications via a set of programming abstractions on context processing....

Towards a Services Platform for Context-Aware Applications

Context-aware computing deals with the ability of computer systems to take advantage of information from or conditions in the dynamic environment to provide added-value services or to execute more complex tasks. In addition to dealing with explicit input, context-aware applications consider contextual information (implicit input). Context awareness has received attention in recent years with th...

A Model of Architectural Factors Influence on Students' Perception of School Climate for Providing School Connectedness

Background and Objectives: The aim of this research was to introduce architectural factors, influencing students' perception of school climate, having a great effect on students' achievement academically, mentally and physically, one of the problems of high school students is their unwillingness for learning and passes their times at educational setting. School connectedness has an effect on st...

Architectural support for context-aware applications: from context models to services platforms