A survey on context-aware systems

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 263-277

  Baldauf, Matthias ^a   Dustdar, Schahram ^b   Rosenberg, Florian ^b  

^a V Research Center of Competence for Tribology and Technical Logistics   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Context framework; Context middleware; Context model; Context ontology; Context aware services; Sensors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE DEVICES; ONTOLOGY;

CONTEXT-AWARE MIDDLEWARE; CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEM;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 34548725499     PISSN: 17438225     EISSN: 17438233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2007.014070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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