Applying MUPE Context Producers in Developing Location and Context Aware Applications

Kimmo Koskinen, Kari Heikkinen, Jouni Ikonen

2006

Abstract

Location based services (LBS) and applications have recently emerged as a significant application area. However, location based services and application could also benefit of the dimensions of the contextual data. Multi-User Publishing Environment (MUPE) has a built-in context mediation capability that allows the application developer to concentrate on using contextual data and thus enabling rapid prototyping of location and context aware applications. In this paper MUPE context producers are applied so that the applications can exploit the different available context in a manner suitable to their logic. This paper purposes to demonstrate that context mediation is a powerful tool to speed up the prototyping process and to enable an efficient application development.

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Koskinen K., Heikkinen K. and Ikonen J. (2006). Applying MUPE Context Producers in Developing Location and Context Aware Applications . In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-48-1, pages 3-11. DOI: 10.5220/0002486200030011


in Bibtex Style

@conference{wis06,
author={Kimmo Koskinen and Kari Heikkinen and Jouni Ikonen},
title={Applying MUPE Context Producers in Developing Location and Context Aware Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={3-11},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002486200030011},
isbn={978-972-8865-48-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems - Volume 1: WIS, (ICEIS 2006)
TI - Applying MUPE Context Producers in Developing Location and Context Aware Applications
SN - 978-972-8865-48-1
AU - Koskinen K.
AU - Heikkinen K.
AU - Ikonen J.
PY - 2006
SP - 3
EP - 11
DO - 10.5220/0002486200030011