Toward a rule-based approach for context-aware applications

Context-awareness is a computing paradigm in which applications can sense and explore users’ context in order to provide them with proper and useful services. These services are dynamic and able to satisfy the users’ current needs based on context changes. Context-awareness implies intelligence that enables an application to discover, reason, and predict a situation, and adapt to it in a dynamically changing environment. Context-aware applications can determine their behavior by sensing and exploring the user’s content without explicit user intervention. They can intelligently react upon changes in the user’s context performing actions relevant to the user, the application itself, and the interaction between user and application.