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Summary: Context-Awareness for the Mobile Environment
Andry Rakotonirainy yy , Seng Wai Loke y and Geraldine Fitzpatrick yy
yCRC for Distributed Systems Technology, Monash University
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Monash University, Caul eld VIC 3145, Australia
swloke@dstc.monash.edu.au
yyCRC for Distributed Systems Technology, University of Queensland
Level 7, General Purpose, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia
andry@dstc.edu.au, g.fitzpatrick@dstc.edu.au
January 31, 2000
Abstract
The proliferation of mobile devices in our daily-life implies a com-
plete re-organisation of the IT architecture. Mobile objects (people and
software or hardware or combinations thereof) face dynamic and drastic
changes of context. Context awareness helps an application respond ap-
propriately to, and take advantage of, these context changes. This paper
discusses the concepts of context and context-awareness for the mobile
computing environment, and sketches our context-awareness model which
is based on an event noti cation service. The model enables each indi-
vidual entity of a mobile environment to be aware not only of its own
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