Why Such a Diversity of Definitions?


  • Diverging views between theory and practice

  • Definition of context is related to:

    specific task at hand
    domain
    application
    problems of immediate interest to researchers

  • Most research on context has been ad hoc approaches -

    do not address questions about context in general


    What is the Nature of Context?
  • Static or dynamic?

  • Discrete or continuous?

  • Knowledge or process?