Context-Aware Adaptation of Mobile Applications Driven by Software Quality and User Satisfaction

Abstract

Mobile applications experience context changes during their execution, moreover their success depends on the user satisfaction that is strictly related to application quality. However, context changes may affect system quality and therefore user satisfaction, hence mobile applications may greatly benefit from context awareness that allows the application to adapt to context changes. In this paper we propose a context aware approach for mobile applications that targets both software quality and user satisfaction. In particular, we focus on service availability and develop a methodology that, leveraging on a novel reward formula that contains the notion of software availability and users feedback, determines the best application adaptation to be applied in a given context. We show the devised methodology on a motivating example.