Dealing with variability in context-aware mobile software

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 915-936

  Fortier, Andrés ^a   Rossi, Gustavo ^a   Gordillo, Silvia E ^a   Challiol, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Architecture; Context awareness; Mobile software; Software variability

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE; DESIGN RATIONALE; DESIGN STRUCTURE; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; LOCATION-SENSING; MOBILE CONTEXT; MOBILE SOFTWARE; MOBILE SOFTWARES; SENSING DEVICES; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

SENSORS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953136254     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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