AppaaS: Provisioning of context-aware mobile applications as a service

The global mobile application market is booming and business giants, viz. Google and Apple, have acknowledged the huge expansion in their respective application market. There is a demand though for a system that can elevate the momentum of context-aware mobile applications, where application behavior can be customized according to various context information. This paper proposes AppaaS, a context-aware system that provides mobile applications as a service. AppaaS handles various context information to provision the best relevant mobile application to such a context. AppaaS also supports state preservation, where application-specific data is stored for future references. Our prototype demonstrates an agile system performance with respect to finding relevant applications to a specific context and controlling the applications functions according the users requirements and access privileges.