TY - GEN
T1 - On context modelling in systems and applications development
AU - Heimbürger, Anneli
AU - Kiyoki, Yasushi
AU - Kärkkäinen, Tommi
AU - Gilman, Ekaterina
AU - Kim, Kyoung Sook
AU - Yoshida, Naofumi
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Context is a multi-dimensional concept. It is hard to define context generally for computer science. Which information is considered as context, which is not? Why are the certain context elements relevant for a certain case, but irrelevant for another? How to explain this to computers? Can computers learn these issues as humans do? In our paper we present different viewpoints to the concept of context and to context modelling starting from requirements engineering and ending up to multi-disciplinary education. Based on context related literature research and discussions in our paper, we can summarize that a complete and comprehensive definition and model of context is difficult to achieve and may not even be appropriate at all. However we can conclude that there is a common understanding that context always relates to an entity, context is used to solve a problem, context depends on the domain of use, context depends on time and context is evolutionary.
AB - Context is a multi-dimensional concept. It is hard to define context generally for computer science. Which information is considered as context, which is not? Why are the certain context elements relevant for a certain case, but irrelevant for another? How to explain this to computers? Can computers learn these issues as humans do? In our paper we present different viewpoints to the concept of context and to context modelling starting from requirements engineering and ending up to multi-disciplinary education. Based on context related literature research and discussions in our paper, we can summarize that a complete and comprehensive definition and model of context is difficult to achieve and may not even be appropriate at all. However we can conclude that there is a common understanding that context always relates to an entity, context is used to solve a problem, context depends on the domain of use, context depends on time and context is evolutionary.
KW - Context
KW - context modelling
KW - location awareness
KW - movement awareness
KW - multi-disciplinary education
KW - requirements engineering
KW - ubiquitous systems
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-690-4-396
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-690-4-396
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79951632650
SN - 9781607506898
T3 - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
SP - 396
EP - 412
BT - Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXII
PB - IOS Press
ER -