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Conceptualizing an User-Centric Approach for Context-Aware Business Applications in the Future Internet Environment

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The obvious move toward a Future Internet environment that is distributed, mobile, cloud-based, semantically rich has raised and emphasized the need for different types of applications. The focus of this new type of application can no longer be on the software itself but directly on the relevant needs and goals of end-users. We argue that because these applications are strongly end-user oriented, context and context-awareness play an important role in their design and development. Hence, in this paper, we introduce and discuss a user-centric approach for building context-aware business applications. This approach proposes a new programming model through a composite system where a human user and an intelligent system are interacting with each other. The interaction is via environment and is according to a predefined plan.

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The paper is supported by the AGH UST Grant 11.11.120.859.

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Pascalau, E., Nalepa, G.J. (2016). Conceptualizing an User-Centric Approach for Context-Aware Business Applications in the Future Internet Environment. In: Skulimowski, A., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems: Recent Trends, Advances and Solutions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 364. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19090-7_8

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