Morecon: Service-based and context-aware middleware for mobile applications

With the rapid growth of mobile devices and their usage, now there are also a wide variety of applications developed for these devices. One of the most important concepts for these devices is ?context-awareness?. This concept refers to the fact that these devices and the applications on them react and respond according to the context in which the person carying device is, such as the surrounding environment or the person?s personal preferences. One of the most known and common usage of context-aware information is the location information. For example, mobile device can notify the user according to its location and present the tasks or make advertisement suggestions, etc. In this thesis, we surveyed some of the previous work about context-awareness and presented MoReCon middleware that we developed for building context-aware application on mobile devices. MoReCon is helpful in providing and maintaning the context information for the mobile applications. It is a modular and servis-oriented middleware, serves the context information via RESTFul web services via a simple protocol. MoReCon is designed as a compact middleware to work on mobile devices.