Context Handling in a SOA Infrastructure for Mobile Applications

Laura Daniele, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen

2008

Abstract

Context-aware mobile applications can dynamically adapt their behaviour to changes in the user context and provide their users with relevant services anywhere and at anytime. In order to develop such applications, a flexible infrastructure is necessary that supports several tasks, such as context information gathering and services provisioning according to this information. This paper presents a SOA-based infrastructure that divides these tasks among several components. These components interoperate by making use of each other’s services. In order to allow components interoperability, we propose the use of context models, which represent the relevant concepts of our application domain independently of specific design and technological choices. Moreover, we present a generic component, the context expression evaluator, which has been defined to facilitate the handling of context conditions, and we illustrate how this component has been integrated with other components of our infrastructure by using context models.

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Daniele L., Ferreira Pires L. and van Sinderen M. (2008). Context Handling in a SOA Infrastructure for Mobile Applications . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-55-5, pages 27-37. DOI: 10.5220/0001899300270037


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@conference{act4soc08,
author={Laura Daniele and Luís Ferreira Pires and Marten van Sinderen},
title={Context Handling in a SOA Infrastructure for Mobile Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={27-37},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001899300270037},
isbn={978-989-8111-55-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Architectures, Concepts and Technologies for Service Oriented Computing - Volume 1: ACT4SOC, (ICSOFT 2008)
TI - Context Handling in a SOA Infrastructure for Mobile Applications
SN - 978-989-8111-55-5
AU - Daniele L.
AU - Ferreira Pires L.
AU - van Sinderen M.
PY - 2008
SP - 27
EP - 37
DO - 10.5220/0001899300270037