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A Privacy-Maintaining Framework for Context-Sensitive Service Discovery Services

Authors:
Colin Atkinson
Philipp Bostan
Thomas Butter
Wolfgang Effelsberg

Keywords: context-aware systems, service discovery, mobile applications.

Abstract:
Despite the rapid growth in the number of mobile devices connected to the internet via UMTS or wireless 802.11 hotspots the market for location-based services has yet to take off as expected. Moreover, other kinds of context information are still not routinely supported by mobile services and even when they are, users are not aware of the services that are available to them at a particular time and place. We believe that the adoption of mobile services will be significantly increased by context-sensitive service discovery services that use context information to deliver precise, personalized search results in a changing environment and reduce human-device interaction. However, developing such applications is still a major challenge for software developers. In this paper we therefore present a framework for building context-sensitive service discovery services for mobile clients that ensures the privacy of the users’ context while offering valuable search results.

Pages: 15 to 28

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2009. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 7, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652