Context-Awareness for Mobile Computing & Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Context awareness is now a well-integrated purpose in many applications and research domains. Context-aware applications are able to “feel” and “observe” what happens in the environment, providing better responses, flexible interfaces, and more intelligent behaviors.  However, the increasing weight of IoT, Sensors, Mobile phones/computers as well as Edge/Fog paradigms, including the mobility of persons and devices still continue to raise new challenges in the context domain particularly with the inclusion of these mobility preoccupations. Thus, Mobile Computing and Sensors are a key application domain for the convergence of technological aspects for the development of context awareness solutions.

The objective of this Special Issue is to seek propositions at various levels of context-awareness for Mobile Computing and Sensors: integration of technological aspects (middleware, sensors/IoT, interactions, pervasive information systems, Deep Learning, etc.), design, distribution, semantic, heterogeneity, warehousing, inferences, evaluations and measures, quality, implementation, tests, etc., as well as the proposition of theoretical foundations related to research on combining solutions for developing context awareness solutions. This synergistic focus will enforce the engineering of intelligent and innovative solutions to guide their design and promote the development of new approaches (architectures, tools, and methodologies) for context awareness with mobile technologies.

Dr. Philippe Roose
Dr. Yudith Cardinale
Guest Editors

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• context-awareness
• convergence
• heterogeneity
• evaluation
• mobility
• sensors
• IoT
• design
• the context in distributed systems
• context aggregation
• interactions and mobile interactions context
• context modeling
• machine learning for context awareness
• machine learning for autonomic computing
• distributed architecture for processing context information in mobile environments
• sensor model
• user context profile: location, people nearby, social situation, etc
• physical context: lighting, noise levels, traffic conditions, and temperature
• context and sustainability
• smart* (home, city, etc.) context
• state of (physical environment, computing system, user, environmental, etc.)
• context-awareness middleware