UbiPOL: A Platform for Context-aware Mobile Device Applications in Policy Making

UbiPOL is a context-aware platform for policy making. At its core, the UbiPOL platform has an ess ential framework of web services and APIs. It is intended to aid and support the development of location-based and conte xt-aware applications in the field of policy making. Software developers can make use of UbiPOL generic web services and API s to develop new context-aware policy making application s for mobile devices, leveraging the built in support for Locationbased Services of the platform. The paper gives a g eneric presentation of the UbiPOL platform focusing on the provisioning of location-based and context-aware mo bile device applications in the field of policy making.