TY - GEN
T1 - Three Categories of Context-Aware Systems
AU - Shishkov, Boris
AU - Larsen, John Bruntse
AU - Warnier, Martijn
AU - Janssen, Marijn
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - With regard to context-aware systems: some optimize system-internal processes, based on the context state at hand; others maximize the user-perceived effectiveness of delivered services, by providing different service variants depending on the situation of the user; still others are about offering value-sensitivity when the society demands so. Even though those three perspectives cover a broad range of currently relevant applications there are no widely accepted and commonly used corresponding concepts and terms. This is an obstacle to broadly understand, effectively integrate, and adequately assess such systems. We address this problem, by considering a (component-based) methodological derivation of technical (software) specifications based on underlying enterprise models. That is because context states are about the enterprise environment of a (software) system while the delivery of context-aware services is about technical (software) functionalities; hence, we need a perspective on both. We consider the SDBC (Software Derived from Business Components) approach that brings together enterprise modeling and software specification. On that basis: (a) We deliver a base context-awareness conceptualization; (b) We partially align it to agent technology because adapting behaviors to environments assumes some kind of pro-activity that is only fully covered by agent systems, in our view. We partially illustrate our proposed conceptualization and particularly - the agent technology implications, by means of a case example featuring land border security.
AB - With regard to context-aware systems: some optimize system-internal processes, based on the context state at hand; others maximize the user-perceived effectiveness of delivered services, by providing different service variants depending on the situation of the user; still others are about offering value-sensitivity when the society demands so. Even though those three perspectives cover a broad range of currently relevant applications there are no widely accepted and commonly used corresponding concepts and terms. This is an obstacle to broadly understand, effectively integrate, and adequately assess such systems. We address this problem, by considering a (component-based) methodological derivation of technical (software) specifications based on underlying enterprise models. That is because context states are about the enterprise environment of a (software) system while the delivery of context-aware services is about technical (software) functionalities; hence, we need a perspective on both. We consider the SDBC (Software Derived from Business Components) approach that brings together enterprise modeling and software specification. On that basis: (a) We deliver a base context-awareness conceptualization; (b) We partially align it to agent technology because adapting behaviors to environments assumes some kind of pro-activity that is only fully covered by agent systems, in our view. We partially illustrate our proposed conceptualization and particularly - the agent technology implications, by means of a case example featuring land border security.
KW - AORTA
KW - Context-awareness
KW - Modeling
KW - SDBC
KW - System design
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-94214-8_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-94214-8_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049678853
SN - 9783319942131
VL - 319
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 185
EP - 202
BT - Proceedings of Business Modeling and Software Design - 8th International Symposium, BMSD 2018
PB - Springer
T2 - 8th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2018
Y2 - 2 July 2018 through 4 July 2018
ER -