An Engineering Approach to Adaptation and Calibration

A new computing era after Mainframes, PC’s and mobiles is becoming more and more anticipated since the beginning of the 21st century. This new era is often described with several confusing terms such as pervasive, ubiquitous, ambient or context-aware computing. However, there is a common characteristic behind all these projections: They are all based on a substantially more flexible system understanding, whereby the thought of the system as a tool moves into the background and the needs and wishes of the user step into the foreground. Such concepts for software applications being aware of their context are in fact not new, but become more and more important nowadays for productive fields of software and systems engineering and particularly in ubiquitous and wearable computing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: MRCO
• Authors: Michael Fahrmair, Wassiou Sitou, Bernd Spanfelner
• Keywords: 21st Century, Confusing Terms, Context-aware Computing, Information Management, MRCO 2005