Smart Adelaide guide: a context-aware web application

Kewen Liao, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Hoi Sim Wong

Abstract: Context-aware Web services are currently emerging as an important technology for building innovative context-aware Web applications. Unfortunately, context-aware Web services are still difficult to build. This paper describes Smart Adelaide Guide, a context-aware Web application developed by ContextServ platform, a research project sponsored by Australian Research Council. ContextServ adopts model-driven development where a UML based modeling language---ContextUML---is used to model Web services and its context-awareness features. The platform offers a set of visual editing and automation tools for rapid generating and deploying context-aware Web services.