Designing a configurable services platform for mobile context‐aware applications

Abstract

Context‐aware services platforms aim at supporting the handling of contextual information in order to provide better user‐tailored services. This paper proposes a novel services platform architecture to support mobile context‐aware applications, giving emphasis to the configurability of the platforms generic functionality. The paper introduces concepts and a language to cope with configurability aspects. The paper also reports on the implementation of a prototype, which implements a Web services‐based context‐aware services platform that runs on top of 3G networks.

Citation

Dockhorn Costa, P., Ferreira Pires, L. and van Sinderen, M.J. (2005), "Designing a configurable services platform for mobile context‐aware applications", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 13-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/17427370580000109