An operational definition of context

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Zimmermann;Andreas Lorenz;Reinhard Oppermann

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CONTEXT'07 Proceedings of the 6th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The definition of context experienced an evolution in the research area of context-aware computing, but still suffers from either generality or incompleteness. Furthermore, many definitions are driven by the ease of implementation. This paper introduces two extensions to available context definitions that provide a natural understanding of this concept to users of context-aware applications and facilitates the engineering of this concept for software developers of such applications.