Towards More Context-Awareness in Reactive Digital Ecosystems

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Abstract

Ecosystems are open adaptive systems with self-organizing properties; they are based on a local interaction of the composing elements and generating a general end-result. Digital ecosystems incorporate these features in context-aware applications that work together for the efficient solving of complex dynamic problems. This article considers the digital ecosystems as being open-system of applications with a certain degree of context-awareness. It also presents Econtxt a programming model for the context used by context-aware applications running in digital ecosystems. An implementation of the proposed context model is presented and analysed in the final part of the article.

Keywords

Context Digital ecosystems Context-awareness 
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Acknowledgements

The work has been funded by the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013 of the Ministry of European Funds through the Financial Agreement POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132395.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Politehnica University of BucharestBucharestRomania

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