Context-aware Group Management in Mobile Environments

enabling people to contact anyone anywhere and at anytime in a convenient way. Though, this promising vision is mainly addressed from the perspective of individual users. The IST project MobiLife furthers this mobile communications paradigm by developing new applications and services. In addition to the requirements of individual users, MobiLife also considers the needs and concerns of groups of users. This paper presents an architecture that allows the management of mobile groups in heterogeneous communication environments and provides them with context-aware services. The architecture presented has been developed by and proposed within the EU IST-511607 project MobiLife.

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