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An Architecture for the Effective Support of Adaptive Context-Aware Applications

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Mobile Data Management (MDM 2001)

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Mobile applications are required to operate in environments characterised by change. More specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during a typical period of system operation. As a consequence, adaptive mobile applications need to be capable of adapting to these changes to ensure they offer the best possible level of service to the user. Our experiences of developing and evaluating adaptive context-aware applications in mobile environments has led us to believe that existing architectures fail to provide the necessary support for such applications. In this paper, we discuss the shortcomings of existing approaches and present work on our own architecture that has been designed to meet the key requirements of context-aware adaptive applications.

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  1. Department of Computing, Lancaster University, Distributed Multimedia Research Group, LA1 4YR, Lancaster, Bailrigg, UK

    Christos Efstratiou, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies & Adrian Friday

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  1. Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, 3 Science Drive 2, 117543, Singapore

    Kian-Lee Tan

  2. Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley EECS, 387 Soda Hall 1776, 94720-1776, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Michael J. Franklin

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering Shatin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, N.T.,Hong Kong, China

    John Chi-Shing Lui

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Efstratiou, C., Cheverst, K., Davies, N., Friday, A. (2001). An Architecture for the Effective Support of Adaptive Context-Aware Applications. In: Tan, KL., Franklin, M.J., Lui, J.CS. (eds) Mobile Data Management. MDM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1987. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44498-X_2

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