Users of Web-based software encounter growing complexity of the software resulting from the
increasing amount of information and service offering. As a consequence the likelihood that
users employ the software in a manner compatible with the provider's interest decreases. An
approach at addressing this problem is to adapt the software's behavior during operation to the
context in which it is being used. This dissertation addresses the question of how
context-awareness can be applied in a systematic process for Web application development: that
is in a Web Engineering process. A model for representing an application's context factors in
ontologies is presented. A corresponding Web software architecture for context is discussed in
particular the CATWALK software framework an implementation based on an XML stack is
described that provides mechanisms for interpreting application and context models to generate
an adaptive application.
