AMBIT: Towards an Architecture for the Development of Context-dependent Applications and Systems

The development of ubiquitous services tailored to the needs and expectations of a very large number of potential users (especially mobile users) requires that future applications and systems be aware of the service fruition contexts and possibly of accurate user profiles.The AMBIT research project aims at providing a general model of context as well as a platform that can be exploited to build and deploy different kinds of context-dependent applications and systems. We aim at overcoming the restrictions of the existing approaches, which are mainly due to the limited notion of context they propose (if any). In particular, we stress the fact that current technologies do not accurately consider the notion of context semantics and user profile, which is the main source of the flooding of useless data that overload systems and often users' minds.