TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEXT-AWARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS : A METAMODEL-DRIVEN DEFINITION AND IMPLEMENTATION

Context-awareness has captivated a lot of attention, especially in the field of pervasive and mobile computing which gives the naissance of the concept of smart cities in the last decade. Doubtless an important demand for real-world location data inner the virtual world is expanding. Nevertheless, users’ context is more than its location. Most contextaware information systems do not take into account the diversity of users’ preferences and needs because of its complexity to manage. A key element in the design of context-aware systems is the representation and management of context and of its attributes, to be able to define a relationship between each context and the aspects of interest. In this sense, the objective of our paper is to present a generic context metamodel for the development of context-aware systems. The automation that context-aware systems give can solve many problems and contributes to the concretization of the concept of the smart city. In this paper, we present our context-aware traffic light control system architecture and its implementation as a use case for our contribution which is the generic context framework for context-aware systems.

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