A framework for context information management

Abstract

Context information plays an important role in context-aware mobile commerce (m-commerce) applications. Context information must be preprocessed, integrated and modelled before being stored and then used in a context-aware m-commerce application. Based on Knowledge Management (KM) theories and practice, this paper proposes a framework that uses several information technologies to collect, process, integrate, model, store and use context information. This framework will help effectively manage this information, as well as provide integrated context information about location, weather, time and user activities to enable context-awareness of an m-commerce application.

Customization in location-based advertising: Effects of tailoring source, locational congruity, and product involvement on ad attitudes

“…The e-commerce literature regards context congruity as critically important (Liao & Tang, 2004;Tarasewich, 2003). Here, ''context'' refers to ''any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity'' (Abowd et al, 1999), including location (Varshney, 2003;Venkatesh, Ramesh, & Massey, 2003), time (Leppaniemi & Karjaluoto, 2005;Venkatesh et al, 2003), weather (Cheverst, Mitchell, & Davies, 1999), and user activities (Schmidt, Beigl, & Gellersen, 1999).…”

Context-aware systems: A literature review and classification

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Knowledge management: An information science perspective

“…as it fits the traditions and perspectives of their own profession (Dalkir, 2005;Ekbia & Hara, 2007;Hlupic, Pouloudi, & Rzevski, 2002;Jashapara, 2005;Liao, He, & Tang, 2004;McInerney, 2002;Sarrafzadeh, Martin, & Hazeri, 2006;Widén-Wulff et al, 2005). Consequently, developments in KM are influenced by the different professions interested in knowledge (Dalkir, 2005;Jashapara, 2005;Martin, 2008;Rowley, 2007;Sarrafzadeh et al, 2006;Sinotte, 2004).…”

“…• Level of added value: The relationship among data, information and knowledge is shown as reflecting increasing levels of value added from data to information to knowledge (Liao et al, 2004;Ponelis & Fairer-Wessels, 1998;Donald Hawkins, cited in Zins, 2007b; Gordana.Dodig-Crnkovi cited in Taylor, 1986;Zins, 2007b). • Degree of distillation: The relationships among the three concepts are also described in terms of increasing degree of distillation from data to knowledge, where the distillation is achieved through the value adding processes of summarizing, evaluating, comparing, classifying, and so on (Bates, 2005;Bawden, 2001;Corrall, 1999;Liao et al, 2004;Taylor, 1986).…”

“…• Degree of distillation: The relationships among the three concepts are also described in terms of increasing degree of distillation from data to knowledge, where the distillation is achieved through the value adding processes of summarizing, evaluating, comparing, classifying, and so on (Bates, 2005;Bawden, 2001;Corrall, 1999;Liao et al, 2004;Taylor, 1986). • Degree of complexity: The hierarchal relationships of data, information and knowledge are based on the increasing levels of complexity that each shows as we go from data to information and to knowledge (Anna da Soledade Vieira, cited in Allee, 1997;Zins, 2007b).…”