Framework for Context-Aware Services

Abstract—In the near future, providers of mobile services will face increasing competition. Therefore, the ability to design, develop and deploy reliable context-aware services fast and easily will become essential. We introduce an agent-based Serviceware Framework assisting service providers in developing innovative services, thus reducing the time-to-market of the respective applications. The realized Serviceware Framework offers personalization, location awareness and device independence within each single service. We describe the utilization of the different modules of the framework as well as prototypical application services in the entertainment domain based on the framework developed within the BerlinTainment project. Serviceware Framework, multi-agent systems, mobile services, session management, device independence, personalization, context-awareness I