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The increase of mobile and interconnected devices demands for equally ubiquitous and mobile applications. Due to the heterogeneity of devices, applications have to adapt themselves to the environment they are executed in. This requires context management in the environment and context-sensitivity of the application. In this paper, we present a generic context service with a novel generic context model...