Modern Web systems that provide content to heterogeneous user groups using different devices have to deal with varying context information to support context-awareness. Accomplishing this requirement necessitates sensing, processing, and representing that information. Still, up to now there is a lack of reusable solutions for efficient context management. Therefore, this paper presents a compon...

Security requirements approached at the enterprise level initiate the need for models that capture the organisational and distributed aspects of information usage. Such models have to express organisation-specific security policies and internal controls aiming to protect information against unauthorised access and modification, and against usage of information for unintended purposes. This diss...

teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. this study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among english language teachers. to this end, thirty iranian efl teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...

Teachers’ sense of efficacy belief has been introduced as a context-specific construct, but the related literature is not clear on this specificity. This study was an attempt to show how contextual factors influence efficacy beliefs among English language teachers. To this end, thirty Iranian EFL teachers working in both school and private institute contexts were chosen as the participants to r...

Resources and services are accessible in pervasive computing environments from anywhere and at any time. Also, due to ever-changing nature of such environments, the identity of users is unknown. However, users must be able to access the required resources based on their contexts. These and other similar complexities necessitate dynamic and context-aware access control models for such environmen...

Context-based teaching is the use of contexts as a starting point for development scientific ideas in learning environments. Teachers can this approach to increase students' motivation and willingness learn science. The focus research was develop context-based competencies teachers. With mind, aimed determine effects feedback on teachers' competency factors affecting process. In study, collecti...