The context toolkit: aiding the development of context-enabled applications
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The context fabric: an infrastructure for context-aware computing
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Middleware Infrastructure for Active Spaces
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Architectural Support for Global Smart Spaces
MDM '03 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Providing Contextual Information to Pervasive Computing Applications
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
An architecture for privacy-sensitive ubiquitous computing
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Efficiently Managing Context Information for Large-Scale Scenarios
PERCOM '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science
A Distributed Middleware Solution for Context Awareness in Ubiquitous Systems
RTCSA '05 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
Hybrid context modeling: A location-based scheme using ontologies
PERCOMW '06 Proceedings of the 4th annual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Middleware Support for Context-Awareness in 4G Environments
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
A mobile computing middleware for location- and context-aware internet data services
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
PERCOMW '07 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
MobiPADS: A Reflective Middleware for Context-Aware Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Contory: a middleware for the provisioning of context information on smart phones
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2006 International Conference on Middleware
Middleware for distributed context-aware systems
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
A new community-based context distribution approach for large-scale pervasive systems
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
A new community-based context distribution approach for large-scale pervasive systems
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
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Research in context-aware computing has produced a number of application prototypes, frameworks, middlewares and models for describing context. However, development of ubiquitous context-aware applications is still a difficult task because current middleware systems are focused on isolated and static context-aware environments. Currently, applications require a global knowledge of the context-aware infrastructures in order to establish context-based interactions, and they suffer of problems such as disruptions when a context-aware environment evolves. The goal of this thesis is to develop a distributed middleware for context-aware computing that allows applications to maintain context-based continuous interactions, even in a highly dynamic environment. In order to achieve this goal, we propose a context management strategy based on context domains. We argue that this approach supports four important requirements for context-aware ubiquitous applications: distributed management of context, support for seamless evolution of context-aware systems, dynamic context discovery and domains of context perception.