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EWSA 2005: Software Architecture pp 146–161Cite as

Context-Awareness in Software Architectures

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The growing importance of context-awareness in the construction of adaptable systems requires the development of formal models and notations that can bring this new dimension from middleware concerns into the higher levels of modelling. In this paper, we propose a formal approach to the design of context-aware systems that is well integrated with the concepts and techniques that have been proposed for software architectures. This approach is based on a set of primitives through which the notion of context can be modelled as a first-class entity and context-awareness addressed explicitly as an additional dimension of architectural elements. We illustrate the approach around an image search system.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal

    Antónia Lopes

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    José Luiz Fiadeiro

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, KY16 9SX, St Andrews, Fife, UK

    Ron Morrison

  2. VALORIA Laboratory, University of South Brittany, Tohannic Campus, 56017, Vannes, France

    Flavio Oquendo

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Lopes, A., Fiadeiro, J.L. (2005). Context-Awareness in Software Architectures. In: Morrison, R., Oquendo, F. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11494713_10

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