Leveraging the Ubiquitous Web as a Secure Context-aware Platform for Adaptive Applications

Abstract—The availability as well as diversity of connected devices has turned the Internet into a ubiquitous concept. In addition to desktop and laptop PCs, the Internet also connects numerous mobile devices, home entertainment systems, and even in-car units. Various new types software applications arise, trying to make optimal use of this trend. However, as the fragmentation of devices and platforms grows, application developers are increasingly facing the need to cover a wider variety of target devices. Maintaining a viable balance between development costs and market coverage has turned out to be a challenging issue when developing applications for such a ubiquitous ecosystem. In this paper, we present the Webinos approach, a distributed web runtime that adaptively leverages the device-independent characteristics of the Web. By introduc-ing the concept of context-aware Personal Zones, the Webinos platform aims to facilitate the development of self-adaptive and immersive applications, optimized for ubiquitous computing environments. Keywords-ubiquitous web; context-aware platform; dis-tributed runtime; adaptive applications; webinos I