Project ContextNet

ContextNet is the follow-up project of Mobilis Project (2007-2010) and aims at designing and developing middleware-layer software capable of context reasoning and sharing for large-scale pervasive collaboration and social networks. Problem Statement: Support for mobile collaboration and coordination, sharing of contents and sensor data and context information, as well as reasoning about this dynamic information is becoming of paramount importance for today's mobile and always connected society. However so far, platforms, middleware services, reasoning engines and development environments are limited to specific kinds of content/context sharing and reasoning, are not deployable at large scale, and are mostly focused on specific applications. ContextNet aims at designing and developing a middleware-layer architecture and technologies for enabling context-aware mobile collaboration services and supporting mobile social networks. Its major focus is on the middleware aspects, rather than the application-layer and social networking issues. Consider this scenario where sharing of a specific context (the location) may help a person in her daily activities.

Main Lines of Research:

Context Modeling and Reasoning
Dynamically adaptive and context-aware application programming
Large-scale context provisioning and sharing
Mobile Collaboration and Social Networks