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This article presents the U-Deal, a decentralized and multi-agent ubiquitous commerce model, that describes a peer-to-peer context aware system, with a distributed context history (trail) engine and a dynamic profile generator. The aim of the model is to provide an automatic deal opportunity recommendation, based on user profile, preferences and activities history in a peer-to-peer environment. In...
Context-aware systems offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for end users by gathering context data and adapting systems' behavior accordingly. In this paper, we propose a Context Aware ESB (CA-ESB) that will publish and discover services based on location context. The main modules of the framework consist of Context Provider (senses location context), Context Aware Logic...
The existing reminder system uses limited context information and has limited functions, so it can't meet users ' needs. This paper presents intelligent business assistant based on context-aware computing platform in a grid computing environment. The platform uses the context modeling and reasoning technology and analyzes the system in the grid environment. At last, the intelligent business assistant...
This paper introduces context-aware adaptation as an important part of power distribution architectures. In our view context-awareness is a necessary part of administering the business policies concerning power distribution and is orthogonal to the core engineering aspects of power distribution. By decoupling the engineering logic from the business aspects we can plug in different adaptation strategies...
In view of characteristic of context awareness service, this paper presents a new approach to measure user perceived value. Based on user perceived value, we established context awareness service value chain model. In the value chain, mobile operators play a central role.
Services are expected to be a promising way for people to use information and computing resources in the emerging ubiquitous network society. In this study, we propose a metaphoric concept called flowable service. It is defined as a logical stream that organizes and provides circumjacent services in such a way that they are perceived by individuals as those naturally embedded in their surrounding...
Context-awareness and adaptability are important and desirable properties of service-based processes designed to provide personalized services. Most of the existing approaches focus on the adaptation at the process instance level which involves extending the standard Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and its engine or creating their own process languages (e.g. However, the approach proposed...
In present day globalised trade, the ability to support collaboration through B2B (Business-to-Business) services is crucial. One of the key challenges is to pervasively connect partners across the entire value chain, with the appropriate service offerings. Thus, it is vital to quickly identify potential partners to form new B2B collaborations or to support formed collaborations with swift decision...
This work describes innovative smart environments with embedded context-awareness technologies, enabling new business models and consequently the creation of new services. The context-awareness framework presented in this paper is taken from the results of an EU Framework Programme (FP) 7 Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) project. Major novelties include a business shift from traditional...
Data as a Service (DaaS) emerges as a new trend for exchanging data between independent data owners and data users so that data can be acquired on demand through standard protocols across heterogeneous platforms. It is usually a user-interactive and iterative process to compose the services into various data-driven business scenarios of data acquisition, analysis, and other processing activities....
Concepts of individualization represent an enhancement of existing role concepts by containing subjective information demands. Role concepts are related to personalization and grant access to IT resources. By means of context- and situation-based approaches a concept is introduced that provides an individual - as opposed to personalized - access to IT resources in heterogeneous system landscapes....
Usually, for a particular business process a multitude of variants exist. Each of them constitutes an adjustment of a reference process model to specific requirements building the process context. While some progress has been achieved regarding the configuration of process variants, there exists only little work on how to accomplish this in a sound and efficient manner, especially when considering...
The current Internet, while successful in many aspects, has a set of associated architectural and business problems that threaten its stability and inhibit new advances, such as seamlessly supporting ubiquitous computing applications. This paper proposes a set of autonomic mechanisms that can manage the future Internet. The context-aware governance features of this approach are particularly suitable...
Much of the human activity defines information context and it can be effectively used for a matching process of context-aware mobile advertising systems. Although prior context-aware mobile advertising systems employed personalized and context sensitive approaches, they have mostly used simply aggregated user-side context information from sensors and have relied on previously prepared inference rules...
Most researches on ubiquitous computing focus on context capture and adaptation. The lack of a well-defined context model inhibits identification, reasoning and reuse of context and context-aware elements. In this paper we propose the development of model-driven context-aware applications. We present the COMODE framework for modeling context-aware applications in the context of MDE (model driven engineering)...
Workflow technology is an effective means of modeling and management of complex interacting business processes and is now being employed in other diversified domains. Although the workflow technology is already quite mature and commercial workflow management products are readily available, it has been observed that the technology lacks certain context related components and concepts when applied to...
This paper investigates context awareness in business process modelling (BPM). It introduces a context model for BPM (CM4BPM) and a role-based business process model (RBPM), and presents an approach allowing enacting processes with respect to the context. Decisions driving business processes enactment are based on context related knowledge. The proposed approach consists on using contextual knowledge...
Context-Sensitive Systems (CSS) demand that designers consider new aspects and challenges in comparison to traditional applications. In a preliminary experiment, we observed that developers have difficulties when including the concept of context in their applications. This paper presents a CSS Design Process, which details the main activities for context specification and the design of CSS and provides...
B2B collaborations today are typically short-term and dynamic, so it is imperative that business processes be quickly and accurately forged. This paper details research that combines both the context-aware (CA) approach and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique to select and rank potential partners in context-enabled B2B collaborations. The approach was validated by a case study. A review of...
The success of a business process depends on whether it meets its business goal as well as non-functional requirements in the context of business process-oriented applications. Adaptability is an important requirement that aims to dynamically and quickly reconfigure business processes to support new and rapidly changing business contexts. However, traditional process adaptation technologies have problems...
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