Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Context Awareness for Proactive Systems, CAPS 2006

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Proactive computing systems connect to the physical world through sensors and actuators that measure and manipulate the environment. The data collected serves as stimuli for these systems, enabling them to provide users with relevant resources, information, and services. To effectively perform this task, proactive systems must consider users' contexts, utilizing sensor data to infer their state, activities, and goals, and adjusting their behavior accordingly. Mobile and pervasive environments present promising applications for these systems, emphasizing the need for context awareness in rapidly changing settings. While context awareness offers novel opportunities, it also introduces new challenges for proactive computing technology. The CAPS 2006 workshop aimed to investigate these challenges and explore potential solutions. Topics included modeling and representing context in proactive systems, frameworks for context handling, sensor and actuator management, context reasoning, learning, prediction, and understanding user demand. The proceedings feature fourteen papers detailing the latest scientific and industrial findings, alongside two keynote addresses and an abstract from a tutorial on recent middleware standardization developments for mobile computing.