Apparatus and method for dependency management

It provides a dependency management apparatus and method. Dependency management according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, consumption of managing the consumption object to perform a predetermined operation based on the information provided by the supplier object management module, the supplier object for managing the supply object to provide an information object management module supplied from the supply of objects and dependent storage module for storing information relating to dependency (dependency) between the management information objects for managing the consumption object relative to the information object management module, the supplier object and the consumption object, and dependency storage module checking whether or not a dependency between the basis of the information about the dependencies of objects and supply consumer object, and includes a dependency management module for controlling the activation of the supply of objects and object according to the consumption-dependent or not. Dependency management, dependency maps, context-aware services