Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1. Context-Aware Services
In personal communications, people often condense their speech by omitting
information that can be directly deduced from the circumstances: such an
awareness of surroundings, or context, assists the efficient exchange of ideas.
Further, one of the parties to a discussion may notice or introduce a change in
context, and react to this change as the situation demands. As for the nature of this
information, in classical rhetorical theory the constituents of circumstantiae
usually include time, place, events, manner, causes, persons and instruments
related to an incident.
In the same way, computer applications could be made responsive to users' wishes
if they were context aware, that is capable of inferring the users' true intentions by
taking into account any relevant auxiliary information supplied for the purpose.
Thus changes in different types of context information could cause a variety of
actions to be initiated by the applications, just as a perso ... read full excerpt from Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services ebook
