Context Acquisition, Representation and Employment in Mobile Service Platforms

Mobile environments, the Web, services, semantics, converge in the physical world forming a shared communication sphere. To ensure context-enabled interoperation on service platforms in such a sphere, developers need to have a shared specification of objects belonging to the sphere and their roles. We present context acquisition, context representation, context enabling and use in mobile service platforms, outline the main ontological enablers of the shared communication sphere, and illustrate their added value with a scenario.