Architectural Requirements for Building Context-Aware Services Platforms
Paolo Costa, José Gonçalves Pereira Filho, Marten J. Van Sinderen · 2003
Context-aware platforms aim at providing support to application designers to conceive their context-aware applications using services, mechanisms and interfaces that shield them from the complexity introduced by handling contextual information. This paper explores the essential requirements to be satisfied by context-aware service platforms and proposes a definition of a generic architecture supporting the execution of adaptive context-aware mobile applications. The WASP platform, a web services based context-aware service platform on top of 3G networks, is taken as a reference.