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Adding Context Awareness to C#

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In this paper, we propose a context-aware extension of the C# programming language. Bringing the context-awareness at the level of the programming language constructs comes with the advantage of lowering the effort required to specify the contextual polymorphic behavior of the applications. The application developer is released, at a great extent, from the responsibility of managing the context-awareness without reducing the programmer’s ability to express the context-dependent behavior. In order to insert context-awareness into the C# programming language we have extended the programming language constructs (i.e. constant, variable, function, object) with context awareness. We have also provided language constructs for dealing with the context model.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Anca Rarau & Ioan Salomie

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

    Paul Havinga

  2. University of Twente, Faculty of Computer Science, Computer Architecture Design and Test for Embedded Systems group, P.O. Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

    Maria Lijding  & Nirvana Meratnia  & 

  3. CTIT, University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Maarten Wegdam

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Rarau, A., Salomie, I. (2006). Adding Context Awareness to C#. In: Havinga, P., Lijding, M., Meratnia, N., Wegdam, M. (eds) Smart Sensing and Context. EuroSSC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4272. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11907503_8

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