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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Towards context-aware and resource-driven self-adaptation for mobile handheld applications
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
A survey on context-aware systems
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
CARISMA: Context-Aware Reflective mIddleware System for Mobile Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
MobiPADS: A Reflective Middleware for Context-Aware Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
Programming pervasive and mobile computing applications: The TOTA approach
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Requirements and challenges for building service-oriented pervasive middleware
Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services
MUSIC: Middleware Support for Self-Adaptation in Ubiquitous and Service-Oriented Environments
Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems
Self-organized service placement in ambient intelligence environments
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
A survey of context modelling and reasoning techniques
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Designing context-sensitive systems: An integrated approach
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Toward architecture-based context-aware deployment and adaptation
Journal of Systems and Software
Towards the semantic and context-aware management of mobile multimedia
Multimedia Tools and Applications
An extensible, self contained, layered approach to context acquisition
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing
MobiCon: a mobile context-monitoring platform
Communications of the ACM
A Decoupled and Interoperable Architecture for Coordination in Ubiquitous Systems
SBCARS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Fifth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse
A context-aware web content generator based on personal tracking
W2GIS'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems
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Sensors of all kinds are being integrated with mobile and portable devices (tablets, smartphones). This opens up the possibility of context-aware applications to effectively be able to adapt their behavior, user interfaces and content according to the current user's situation. Frequently, context-aware applications require an infrastructure for acquisition, aggregation and reasoning of contextual information. However, existing context management infrastructures are not always appropriated to the heterogeneous and particular environment of mobile devices. In this paper, we present a context management middleware called LoCCAM (Loosely Coupled Context Acquisition Middeware) to provide self-adaptive acquisition of contextual information. It can execute both locally, on a single device, or distributed among nearby devices. The middleware proposes a model for publication, and notification of contextual information based on tuple spaces. As consequence, it offers a lower coupling among applications and the context acquisition layer. In this paper, we also present a performance evaluation of the adaptation mechanism.