The Quick Step to Foxtrot

We propose Foxtrot, a highly flexible architecture for context aware systems that adapts to the versatile requirements of ubiquitous computing environments. To further enhance the gains of the architecture we introduce a context prediction paradigm that incorporates the possibility to increase the accuracy of proactive context aware applications. To utilise this potential we propose a novel context prediction algorithm. Additionally we introduce a methodology for designing context aware systems. Our development guidelines and the corresponding software equip the system designer with powerful analysis tools that support the creation of systems with greatly improved reliability.

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