Adaptation platform for autonomic context-aware services

Abstract

Most context-aware services are not autonomic because of two main reasons. The first one is that a context-aware service reacts only to context states that are entirely predicted by the developer. The second reason is that the adaptation control is based on predefined, application and context-specific policies. In this paper we propose a solution based on an application-context description, which allows the machine to autonomously discover the context structure and the adaptation strategies. We have tested our model using a simple scenario where a forum service is adapted to the user language.