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An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users
Mobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of processing power and interaction capabilities than traditional computers, and the often distracting and time-constricted...
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Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23899932 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s130809635 |
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author | Curiel, Pablo Lago, Ana B. |
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description | Mobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of processing power and interaction capabilities than traditional computers, and the often distracting and time-constricted scenarios in which we use them do not help in alleviating these limitations. Context-awareness is a valuable technique to address these issues, as it enables to adapt application behaviour to each situation. In this paper we present a context management infrastructure for mobile environments, aimed at controlling context information life-cycle in this kind of scenarios, with the main goal of enabling application and services to adapt their behaviour to better meet end-user needs. This infrastructure relies on semantic technologies and open standards to improve interoperability, and is based on a central element, the context manager. This element acts as a central context repository and takes most of the computational burden derived from dealing with this kind of information, thus relieving from these tasks to more resource-scarce devices in the system. |
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spelling | pubmed-38125722013-10-30 An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users Curiel, Pablo Lago, Ana B. Sensors (Basel) Article Mobile phones enable us to carry out a wider range of tasks every day, and as a result they have become more ubiquitous than ever. However, they are still more limited in terms of processing power and interaction capabilities than traditional computers, and the often distracting and time-constricted scenarios in which we use them do not help in alleviating these limitations. Context-awareness is a valuable technique to address these issues, as it enables to adapt application behaviour to each situation. In this paper we present a context management infrastructure for mobile environments, aimed at controlling context information life-cycle in this kind of scenarios, with the main goal of enabling application and services to adapt their behaviour to better meet end-user needs. This infrastructure relies on semantic technologies and open standards to improve interoperability, and is based on a central element, the context manager. This element acts as a central context repository and takes most of the computational burden derived from dealing with this kind of information, thus relieving from these tasks to more resource-scarce devices in the system. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2013-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3812572/ /pubmed/23899932 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s130809635 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Curiel, Pablo Lago, Ana B. An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
title | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
title_full | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
title_fullStr | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
title_full_unstemmed | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
title_short | An Infrastructure to Enable Lightweight Context-Awareness for Mobile Users |
title_sort | infrastructure to enable lightweight context-awareness for mobile users |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812572/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23899932 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s130809635 |
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