Abstract:

Determination and assignment of context is a necessary factor to provide services and applications that are suited to a user and the user's current siutation. However, if contextual information is important for supporting and automating decisions, an important prerequisite for using contextual information is an an appropriate management of the contextual information. To operate within context, models and tools are needed for providing mechanisms and models to structure storage of contextual information, an effective way for retrieving the right contextual information corresponding to the query, and the possiblitiy to connect context to depending knowledge. The contributions of this special issue represent different aspects of the management of context in real-world situations, from the level of the enterprise to the level of the agile and mobile device. The studies show first, that it is not possible to design and develop mobile applications out of context, and second, -and maybe the most interesting-that the explicit introduction of context management at the level of the work team and even the organization level gives a new insight and is very promising.

Bibtex:

@book{BrezillonRoth-BerghoferSchulz05, Editor = {Patrick Br{'e}zillon and Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer and Stefan Schulz}, Keywords = {Context}, Number = {3}, Publisher = {Lavoisier}, Series = {Revue d'intelligence Artificielle}, Title = {Applying Context Management}, Volume = {19}, Year = {2005}}