Supporting Systematic Usage of Context in Web Applications

Context can be seen as a paradigm aiming to improve user interaction with software. For Web applications in particular, the issues of content explosion and tech-nological constraints need to be addressed better. This paper discusses an approach for engineering context-aware, adaptive Web applications. This approach inte-grates context knowledge with domain ontologies, and allows adaptation to be specied for each aspect of ap-plication generation. We further describe CATWALK, our implemented framework, which makes use of the context models to enable adaptivity in applications