Abstract
Mobile Applications with context awareness features allow mobile users to communicate and share different sorts of context-based information among themselves, such as the current position of other users, geo-referenced data, device speed and others. Although many of such mobile collaboration applications potentially share a good amount of functionality, most of them are developed from scratch, monolithic and tailored to specific mobile platforms, what limits their applicability. This chapter presents a client middleware architecture which supports dynamic deployment and composition of components for context-awareness, common collaboration services, and presents a context oriented language easing the coding of such applications. We also present some prototype context-aware applications implemented on the top of our middleware services, one of which was used to assess the advantages of using our middleware.
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This work was partially funded by BMBF/CNPq grant 490817/2006-8.
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David, L., Viterbo, J., Malcher, M., Fonseca, H., Baptista, G., Endler, M. (2012). A Middleware Supporting Adaptive and Context-Aware Mobile Applications. In: Lovett, T., O'Neill, E. (eds) Mobile Context Awareness. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-625-2_10
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