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1	Context-aware information systems and their application to health care Kawasme, Luay 14 October 2008 (has links) This thesis explores the field of context-aware information systems (CAIS). We present an approach called Compose, Learn, and Discover (CLD) to incorporate CAIS into the user daily workflow. The CLD approach is self-adjusting. It enables users to personalise the information views for different situations. The CAIS learns about the usage of the information views and recalls the right view in the right situation. We illustrate the CLD approach through an application in the health care field using the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). In order to realise the CLD approach, we introduce Semantic Composition as a new paradigm to personalise information views. Semantic Composition leverages the type information in the domain model to simplify the user-interface composition process. We also introduce a pattern discovery mechanism that leverages data-mining algorithms to discover correlations between user information needs and different situations. Context-aware Information Systems Electronic Medical Records EMR Health Care Data Mining Semantic Composition Context Patterns Reference Architecture Context Sensors User Interface Composition Congnitive Dimensions of Notation Context-awareness