Context awareness in mobile computing environments

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 445-464

  Anagnostopoulos, Christos B ^a   Tsounis, Athanasios ^a   Hadjiefthymiades, Stathes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Context definition; Context modeling; Context aware applications

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE DEVICES; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

CONTEXT DEFINITION; CONTEXT MODELING; CONTEXT-AWARE APPLICATIONS;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 34250851382     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-006-9187-6     Document Type: Article

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