Authors:
Achiya Elyasaf
and
Arnon Sturm
Affiliation:
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Keyword(s):
Modeling, Context, Context-aware Systems, Conceptual Framework, Benchmark.
Abstract:
Context-aware systems keep on emerging in all of our daily activities. Context, which can be a location, a user, an actual activity, or physical conditions, plays a major role in such systems. Actually, everything we refer to in our systems can be considered as context. To cope with this new situation, mechanisms for managing context were devised, including frameworks and programming languages. However, modeling languages that address the notion of context are rare. In this paper, we aim at framing and further defining the requirements for context modeling languages. Such a conceptualized framework sets the ground for designing and evaluating modeling languages for context-aware systems. We demonstrate a possible use of the proposed framework through the evaluation of CO-LSC, a context-oriented modeling language.