into the published messages. In this paper we claim that this approach is limiting and inefficient and propose a context-aware publish-subscribe model of communication as a better alternative. We describe a protocol that implements such model in a distributed publish-subscribe middleware, and analyze how it performs

by encoding the “context ” of the publisher into the published messages, taking advantage of the expressiveness of content-based addressing to encode context-aware communication patterns. In this paper we claim that this approach is both inadequate and inefficient and propose a context-aware publish-subscribe

We describe a platform for context-aware computing which enables applications to follow mobile users as they move around a building. The platform is particularly suitable for richly equipped, networked environments. The only item a user is required to carry is a small sensor tag, which identifies

and applications, we looked in depth at the types of context used and models of context information, at systems that support collecting and disseminating context, and at applications that adapt to the changing context. Through this survey, it is clear that context-aware research is an old but rich area

removed from that vision. This is due to three main problems: (1) the notion of context is still ill defined; (2) there is a lack of conceptual models and methods to help drive the design of context-aware applications; and (3) no tools are available to jump-start the development of context-aware

Abstract. The publish/subscribe (or pub/sub) paradigm is a simple and easy to use model for interconnecting applications in a distributed environment. Many existing pub/sub systems are based on pre-defined subjects, and hence are able to exploit multicast technologies to provide scalability

policy model that overlays context-aware, point-to-point (hop-level) controls onto a publish/subscribe network. The approach is unique as it allows granular control over 1) the construction of the dissemination network, and 2) the information flows within the network. Interaction Control was designed

Architecture (CoBrA), a new context-aware pervasive computing framework. The current version of the CoBrA ontology models the basic concepts of people, agents, places, and presentation events in an intelligent meeting room environment. It provides a vocabulary of terms for classes and properties

-criteria recommenders. Then, it focuses on the category of multi-criteria rating recommenders -techniques that provide recommendations by modelling a user's utility for an item as a vector of ratings along several criteria. A review of current algorithms that use multicriteria ratings for calculating predictions

Content-based publish / subscribe (CBPS) systems are a natural substrate for context-aware applications because they provide the right separation of concerns, efficient event distribution, extensibility, and scalability. However, the separation of concerns afforded by CBPS middleware precludes