Towards an Agent-Based Context Management Architecture

Abstract

Today, users of applications (including Web services) expect them to be adaptive to the context of use, which consists essentially of information concerning user needs, their devices (personal computer, Smartphone, etc.) and the dynamics of the environment (mainly networks). Therefore, context management encounters the problem of heterogeneity of representations, limitation of device capacity and network bandwidth. In order to overcome this difficulty, special management of context is required for its collection, updating and exchange. In this paper, we will try to propose an agent-based solution to meet user expectations.