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Pervasive computing applications should assist their user in all situations of the daily life. These applications are able to interact with their environment, called context, in both ways. On one hand they are aware of their environment and can use this information in configuration decisions. On the other hand they actively modify the context. Existing approaches only manage the use of shared resources...