Second International Workshop on Managing Context Information and Semantics in Mobile Environments (MCISME)

The increasing popularity of mobile devices and sensor networks are enabling new classes of applications targeting environments characterized by being dynamic, mobile, reconfigurable, and personalized. This environment raises challenging problems for scientists and developers, as they have to deal with the variations in the execution context such as location, time, users' activities, and devices' capabilities. This also changes the role of context information and semantics as compared to traditional information systems, as now the physical environment immediately affects and interacts with the processing of data and communication. Context within mobile applications has been the topic of active research for many years. A lot of work has been done for capturing and managing context. Considerably less work exists for managing context using semantic techniques which is the main theme of the MCISME workshop.