Context-aware database querying: Recent progress and challenges

Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 147-168

  Li, Yuanping ^a   Feng, Ling ^a   Zhou, Lizhu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84900114120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-290-9.ch006     Document Type: Chapter

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