A data-oriented survey of context models
ACM SIGMOD RecordPublished 1 December 2007
Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo Curino, Elisa Quintarelli, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca
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This survey has the goal to provide a comprehensive evaluation framework, allowing application designers to compare context models with respect to a given target application, and stress the analysis of those features which are relevant for the problem of data tailoring.
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Context-aware systems are pervading everyday life, therefore context modeling is becoming a relevant issue and an expanding research field. This survey has the goal to provide a comprehensive evaluation framework, allowing application designers to compare context models with respect to a given target application; in particular we stress the analysis of those features which are relevant for the problem of data tailoring. The contribution of this paper is twofold: a general analysis framework for context models and an up-to-date comparison of the most interesting, data-oriented approaches available in the literature.
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