In context-aware computing, distributed information about entities, such as people, places and objects, is captured and made available to applications, which utilize this context....
Context-aware systems in a smart space environment must be aware of the surrounding contexts and adapt to changing contexts in highly dynamic environments. Data managements of con...
—This paper introduces a novel contextual model for the recognition of people’s visual focus of attention (VFOA) in meetings from audio-visual perceptual cues. More specificall...
Multiagent systems for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises th...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
This paper considers conceptual and contextual issues relating to the problem of developing systems models capable of representing knowable and unknowable information requirements...