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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 48 , Issue 3 (March 2005) table of contents
The disappearing computer

SPECIAL ISSUE: The disappearing computer table of contents

Pages: 49 - 53

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Joëlle Coutaz	Universitè Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
James L. Crowley	Institute National Polytechnique de Genoble and Laboratoire GRAVIR at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Montbonnet, France
Simon Dobson	University College, Dublin, Ireland
David Garlan	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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ABSTRACT

Context is not simply the state of a predefined environment with a fixed set of interaction resources. It's part of a process of interacting with an ever-changing environment composed of reconfigurable, migratory, distributed, and multiscale resources.

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	1	James L. Crowley , Joëlle Coutaz , Gaeten Rey , Patrick Reignier, Perceptual Components for Context Aware Computing, Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing, p.117-134, September 29-October 01, 2002, Göteborg, Sweden
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	Oana Bucur , Philippe Beaune , Olivier Boissier, Définition et représentation du contexte pour des agents sensibles au contexte, Proceedings of the 2nd French-speaking conference on Mobility and uibquity computing, May 31-June 03, 2005, Grenoble, France
	H. P. Dommel, The challenges of ambient collaboration, Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Diversity in computing, October 19-22, 2005, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
	Cristiana Bolchini , Carlo A. Curino , Elisa Quintarelli , Fabio A. Schreiber , Letizia Tanca, A data-oriented survey of context models, ACM SIGMOD Record, v.36 n.4, December 2007
	Bing Shi , Xianping Tao , Jian Lu, Rewards-based negotiation for providing context information, Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2006), p.8, November 27-December 01, 2006, Melbourne, Australia
	Jürgen Nehmer , Martin Becker , Arthur Karshmer , Rosemarie Lamm, Living assistance systems: an ambient intelligence approach, Proceeding of the 28th international conference on Software engineering, May 20-28, 2006, Shanghai, China
	Simon Dobson , Spyros Denazis , Antonio Fernández , Dominique Gaïti , Erol Gelenbe , Fabio Massacci , Paddy Nixon , Fabrice Saffre , Nikita Schmidt , Franco Zambonelli, A survey of autonomic communications, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), v.1 n.2, p.223-259, December 2006
	V. Stavroulaki , K. Demestichas , E. Adamopoulou , P. Demestichas, Distributed web-based management framework for ambient reconfigurable services in the intelligent environment, Mobile Networks and Applications, v.11 n.6, p.889-900, December 2006
	Djamal Benslimane , Zakaria Maamar, Preface---Context-aware Web services, Distributed and Parallel Databases, v.21 n.1, p.1-3, February 2007
	Roy T. H. Chin , Stijn-Pieter A. van Houten , Alexander Verbraeck, Towards a simulation and visualization portal to support multi-actor decision making in mainports, Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation, December 04-07, 2005, Orlando, Florida
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	Hai Zhuge, The open and autonomous interconnection semantics, Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce: The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet, August 13-16, 2006, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
	Zakaria Maamar , Djamal Benslimane , Philippe Thiran , Chirine Ghedira , Schahram Dustdar , Subramanian Sattanathan, Towards a context-based multi-type policy approach for Web services composition, Data & Knowledge Engineering, v.62 n.2, p.327-351, August, 2007
	Serena Fritsch , Aline Senart , Siobhan Clarke, Addressing Dynamic Contextual Adaptation with a Domain-Specific Language, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Pervasive Computing Applications, Systems, and Environments, p.2, May 20-26, 2007
	Norbert Weißenberg , Rüdiger Gartmann , Agnès Voisard, An Ontology-Based Approach to Personalized Situation-Aware Mobile Service Supply, Geoinformatica, v.10 n.1, p.55-90, March 2006
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	Tomasz Szydło , Robert Szymacha , Krzysztof Zieliński, Context generation and structuralization for ambient networks, Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems, October 28-30, 2007, Rome, Italy
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	Juan Ye , Lorcan Coyle , Simon Dobson , Paddy Nixon, Ontology-based models in pervasive computing systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, v.22 n.4, p.315-347, December 2007
	Rami Rifaieh , Aicha Nabila Benharkat, Sharing semantics among enterprise information systems with contextual ontologies: theory and practice, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, v.1 n.4, p.306-321, March 2006
	Irma Becerra-Fernandez , Karlene C. Cousins , Rosina O. Weber, Nomadic context-aware knowledge management systems: applications, challenges and research problems, International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, v.1 n.2, p.103-121, March 2007
	Tarak Chaari , Dejene Ejigu , Frédérique Laforest , Vasile-Marian Scuturici, A comprehensive approach to model and use context for adapting applications in pervasive environments, Journal of Systems and Software, v.80 n.12, p.1973-1992, December, 2007
	Pavel Shvaiko, Guest editorial preface: Special issue on contexts and ontologies, The Knowledge Engineering Review, v.23 n.1, p.1-6, March 2008
	JÉrÔme Euzenat , JÉrÔme Pierson , Fano Ramparany, Dynamic context management for pervasive applications, The Knowledge Engineering Review, v.23 n.1, p.21-49, March 2008
	Ph. Mylonas , D. Vallet , P. Castells , M. FernÁndez , Y. Avrithis, Personalized information retrieval based on context and ontological knowledge, The Knowledge Engineering Review, v.23 n.1, p.73-100, March 2008
	Ricardo Couto A. da Rocha , Markus Endler , Thiago Senador de Siqueira, Middleware for ubiquitous context-awareness, Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for pervasive and ad-hoc computing, p.43-48, December 01-05, 2008, Leuven, Belgium
	Andreas S. Rath , Didier Devaurs , Stefanie N. Lindstaedt, UICO: an ontology-based user interaction context model for automatic task detection on the computer desktop, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies, p.1-10, June 01-01, 2009, Heraklion, Greece
	Michael Borovicka, DMIS: design and prototype of a future clinical eHealth system, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, November 24-26, 2008, Linz, Austria
	Marcio E.F. Maia , Lincoln S. Rocha , Rossana M.C. Andrade, Requirements and challenges for building service-oriented pervasive middleware, Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services, July 13-17, 2009, London, United Kingdom
	Simon Dobson, Ubiquitous autonomic management: keynote abstract, Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Managing ubiquitous communications and services, June 15-15, 2009, Barcelona, Spain
	Vincent Ganneau , Gaëlle Calvary , Rachel Demumieux, Métamodèle de règles d'adaptation pour la plasticité des interfaces homme-machine, Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine, November 12-15, 2007, Paris, France
	John Strassner , Sven Meer , Declan O'Sullivan , Simon Dobson, The Use of Context-Aware Policies and Ontologies to Facilitate Business-Aware Network Management, Journal of Network and Systems Management, v.17 n.3, p.255-284, September 2009
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.3 SPECIAL-PURPOSE AND APPLICATION-BASED SYSTEMS

Additional Classification:
C. Computer Systems Organization
C.1 PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
C.1.4 Parallel Architectures
C.5 COMPUTER SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION
C.5.3 Microcomputers

General Terms:
Experimentation, Human Factors

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