Capturing Context Information in a Context Aware Virtual Environment

Helio H. L. C. Monte-Alto, Elisa H. M. Huzita

2014

Abstract

Designing context aware applications is a great challenge given the complexity of such systems, specially concerning the mechanisms to provide sensing, or capturing, of context information. There are many works in literature toward providing context awareness in physical environments, such as pervasive systems. However, when dealing with virtual environments, such as distributed environments to support collaboration for teams distributed geographically, an increase on complexity of its design comes up. There is a need to model a software system which uses concepts present in physical environments in order to try to reduce the disadvantages of the distribution. This work explores this challenge, focusing on conceiving a solution for context awareness in distributed virtual environments. We also present a model for designing a platform to support the development of multi-agent based context aware virtual environments.

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H. L. C. Monte-Alto H. and H. M. Huzita E. (2014). Capturing Context Information in a Context Aware Virtual Environment . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-028-4, pages 605-612. DOI: 10.5220/0004885406050612


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis14,
author={Helio H. L. C. Monte-Alto and Elisa H. M. Huzita},
title={Capturing Context Information in a Context Aware Virtual Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={605-612},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004885406050612},
isbn={978-989-758-028-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Capturing Context Information in a Context Aware Virtual Environment
SN - 978-989-758-028-4
AU - H. L. C. Monte-Alto H.
AU - H. M. Huzita E.
PY - 2014
SP - 605
EP - 612
DO - 10.5220/0004885406050612