Providing Architectural Support for Building Context-Aware Applications

Providing Architectural Support for Building Context-Aware Applications (Ph.D. thesis)

Anind K. Dey

"This research in context-aware computing has focused on the development of a software architecture to support the building of context-aware applications. While developers have been able to build context-aware applications, they have been limited to using a small variety of sensors that provide only simple context such as identity and location. This dissertation presents a set of requirements and component abstractions for a conceptual supporting framework. The framework along with an identified design process makes it easier to acquire and deliver context to applications, and in turn, build more complex context-aware applications"