A Self-configuring Middleware for Developing Context Aware Applications

This paper introduces a self-configuring middleware that manages the context information acquisition and representation processes targeting the development of context aware applications. The context information is represented in a programmatic manner, readable for the applications build on top of the middleware, using the RAP context model. An agent based context model management infrastructure generates and administrates the context artifacts at run time. The self-configuring property is enforced by monitoring the real world context in order to detect context variations or conditions for which the context artifacts must be updated.