Context-based coordination for pervasive computing applications

Pervasive computing applications should assist their user in all situations of the daily life. These applications are able to interact with their environment, called context, in both ways. On one hand they are aware of their environment and can use this information in configuration decisions. On the other hand they actively modify the context. Existing approaches only manage the use of shared resources like available functionalities and devices. However, they do not coordinate the interaction with context although context itself can be seen as a shared resource. Therefore, we present an approach to coordinate pervasive computing applications in multi-user environments explicitly considering context interactions.