Context-Aware Systems and Applications

This book constitutesthe thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference onContext-Aware Systems and Applications, ICCASA 2015, held in Vung Tau, Vietnam,in November 2015. The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully selectedand reviewed from over 100 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum ofissues in the area of context-aware systems (CAS) and context-basedrecommendation systems.

CAS is characterized by its self- facets such as self-organization, self-configuration,self-healing, self-optimization, self-protection and so on whose context awarenessused to dynamically control computing and networking functions. The overallgoal of CAS is to realize nature-inspired autonomic systems that can manage themselveswithout direct human interventions.