Context-awareness is emerging as an essential component of many user-focused software domains. It is especially integral to pervasive or ambient computing, but can be used to control the behaviour of any system that adapts to the circumstances in which it is used. Like most new software projects, many existing context-aware systems have been constructed using objector component-oriented program...

Context awareness is essential in mobile learning being a highly personalized environment with diverse capabilities. Major challenges of context awareness are to define the learning context, how to sense it, and how to react to changes. Our proposed system provides a general architecture that facilitates contextualization using current widely-used web standards. It provides a systematic approac...

Collaborative Ubiquitous Environments (CUEs) are environments supporting collaboration among persons in a ubiquitous computing setting. This paper shows how results of the research in the Multi–Agent System (MAS) area, and in particular on MAS environments, can be used to model, design and engineer CUEs, with specific reference to the management of context–awareness information. The role of the...

Current e-learning systems fail to take into account the situation of the learner appropriately although there is a big potential for improving those systems. This paper tries to summarize the potentials and highlight the key challenges of context-aware learning systems. It also presents some steps towards mastering the challenges.

Context-awareness features involve that the adaptive service composition has to take dependencies of contexts into account. In any other case, such composition may reach inconsistent states. Therefore, we need to manage not only the explicit contexts given by the user as parameters, but also the implicit context information. We obtain such implicit contexts from the message of the user, making ...

The existence of creativity support tools establishes creativity as part of the Computer Science research. Therefore, the development of computational methods for the enhancement of creativity is undoubtedly a challenge. In this paper we argue that adding context awareness in creativity support tools will enhance the creativity process. This belief is based on the evaluation of a number of the ...

This study describes the development of a ubiquitous cooperative learning environment using proposed annotation services, wireless communication devices, and the Jigsaw method of cooperative learning. The purpose of the study is to investigate the potential benefits of studying digital course materials with embedded annotations. The SQ3R study method is introduced during the individual study ph...

We investigate essential features of contexts and proper abstractions for modelling context-awareness within CommUnity, a language that we have been developing to support architectural design of distributed and mobile system. Under the assumption that the context that a component perceives is determined by its current position, we explore the use of abstract data types for defining design primi...

In today’s knowledge-driven society, the increasing amount of heterogeneous information, available through a variety of information channels, has made it difficult for users to find the right information at the right time and at the right level of detail. This chapter presents the exploitation of context-awareness in order to reduce the plethora of information that,within the networked enterpri...