Browsing by Subject "Context-awareness"

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      Context aware multiparty session support for adaptive multicasting in heterogeneous mobile networks 

      Antoniou, Josephina; Riede, C.; Pinto, F. C.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2009)
      The paper addresses the issue of achieving context-aware, adaptive multiparty sessions in a heterogeneous system by illustrating how to add elements of adaptivity and context-awareness to the session management functionality ...
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      Context-aware Media Player (CaMP): Developing context-aware applications with separation of concerns 

      Paspallis, Nearchos; Achilleos, Achilleas P.; Kakousis, Konstantinos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2010)
      The constant advent of powerful mobile devices has raised the potential of building novel context-aware applications. These applications let the users enjoy a better experience by sensing their context and automating tasks ...
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      Context-aware self-optimization in multiparty converged mobile environments 

      Antoniou, Josephina; Christophorou, C.; Neto, A.; Sargento, S.; Cabral Pinto, F.; Carapeto, N. F.; Mota, T.; Simoes, J.; Pitsillides, Andreas (2010)
      The increase of networking complexity requires the design of new performance optimization schemes for delivering different types of sessions to users under different conditions. In this scope, special attention is given ...
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      Context-aware service engineering: A survey 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Prezerakos, G. N.; Tselikas, N. D.; Venieris, Iakovos St (2009)
      Context constitutes an essential part of service behaviour, especially when interaction with end-users is involved. As observed from the literature, context handling in service engineering has been during recent years a ...
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      Enabling cross-platform mobile application development: A context-aware middleware 

      Achilleos, Achilleas P.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M. (2014)
      The emergence of mobile computing has changed the rules of web application development. Since context-awareness has become almost a necessity in mobile applications, web applications need to adapt to this new reality. A ...
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      Enhancing Web Service descriptions with context functions 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M. (2012)
      Web Service reuse is embraced both by the industry and the academia. Especially in the field of context-awareness, where Web Services are usually employed as building blocks for larger applications, the existence of adequate ...
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      Experiences from developing a distributed context management system for enabling adaptivity 

      Paspallis, Nearchos; Chimaris, Avraam N.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2007)
      Today, one can observe an ever increasing trend in the use of mobile systems. This change inevitably affects the software running on such devices by necessitating additional functionality such as context awareness and ...
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      Exploiting context in location-based information systems 

      Mettouris, Christos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2010)
      The area of mobile location-based information systems enumerates many systems that enable their users to digitally annotate physical locations, providing in this way information to others about these locations, communicating ...
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      A framework for dynamic validation of context-aware applications 

      Achilleos, Achilleas P.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2012)
      The development of context-aware applications is a complex process that involves the tasks of analysis, design, validation and implementation. This process is typically performed using context modelling approaches that ...
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      Identifying context sources towards context-aware adapted web services 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M. (2011)
      Context-awareness refers to the ability of services and applications to proactively adapt their behavior to the characteristics of the execution environment, such as weather conditions, location, etc., namely context. Web ...
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      Model-driven development of composite context-aware web applications 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Kateros, D. A.; Prezerakos, G. N.; Venieris, Iakovos St (2009)
      Context-awareness constitutes an essential aspect of services, especially when interaction with end-users is involved. In this paper a solution for the context-aware development of web applications consisting of web services ...
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      Modeling context information for realizing simple mobile services 

      Broll, G.; Hußmann, H.; Prezerakos, G. N.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Salsano, S. (2007)
      The emerging technology of mobile services is gaining on importance nowadays and various applications are being developed. Context-awareness constitutes an essential part of mobile services, as it can boost the provision ...
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      An optimization of context sharing for self-adaptive mobile applications 

      Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2008)
      Because of the high potential of mobile and pervasive computing systems, there is an ongoing trend in developing applications exhibiting context awareness and adaptive behavior. While context awareness guarantees that the ...
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      PCP: Privacy-aware Context Profile towards context-aware application development 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M.; Venieris, Iakovos St (2008)
      Context-awareness constitutes an important aspect in mobile environments, especially when user-centric services are considered. However, user and service related data as part of context information are sensitive and their ...
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      A pluggable middleware architecture for developing context-aware mobile applications 

      Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2014)
      The proliferation of powerful smartphone devices provides a great opportunity for context-aware mobile applications becoming mainstream. However, we argue that conventional software development techniques suffer because ...
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      Web service matchmaking for the development of context-aware applications 

      Kapitsaki, Georgia M. (2012)
      Context-awareness is related to the application capability to respond proactively to environment conditions. The reuse of existing components is an important challenge in the development of context-aware applications. Web ...