Proposal for a Generic Context Metamodel

The access to relevant information that is adapted to
user’s needs, preferences and environment is a challenge in many
applications running. That causes an appearance of context-aware
systems. To facilitate the development of this class of applications, it
is necessary that these applications share a common context
metamodel. In this article, we will present our context metamodel
that is defined using the OMG Meta Object facility (MOF).This
metamodel is based on the analysis and synthesis of context concepts
proposed in literature.

• Jaouadi Imen
• Ben Djemaa Raoudha
• Ben Abdallah Hanene

• Context
• metamodel
• Meta Object Facility (MOF)
• awareness system.

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