A group based context-aware strategy for mobile collaborative applications

Abstract

With significant accomplishments of wireless communication, mobile collaborative applications indispensably and inevitably become a new trend. Traditional context aware applications are not directly practicable to current mobile collaborative environments because: 1) Traditional context-aware applications mainly aim at one single user. But in a collaborative environment, the object is a group of users. 2) Traditional context-aware services are always static. In a mobile environment, however, context aware services keep on continuously changing. Fixed communication mode also changes into collaboration in motion. In this paper, a context-aware organization model for mobile collaboration and its management mechanism are proposed. We also introduce a collaborative recommend strategy based on above model. At last, the strategies we proposed are implemented in the Location Aware Mobile Cooperative System (LaMOC) system. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.