659 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 35 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-655-1.ch035 INTRODUCTION Pervasive computing (Saha & Mukherjee, 2003; Satyanarayanan, 2001; Schmidt et al., 2006) is a next generation system paradigm that aims to assist users in their everyday tasks in a seamless unobtrusive manner. It assumes that users are surrounded by numerous communication and computing devices of various features, which interoperate and are capable of capturing and processing information regarding users, their be- haviour and their environments. In this framework, there have been various research initiatives aiming towards the design and realisation of smart spaces Ioanna Roussaki National Technical University of Athens, Greece Nikos Kalatzis National Technical University of Athens, Greece Nicolas Liampotis National Technical University of Athens, Greece Korbinian Frank German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Communications and Navigation, Germany Efstathios Sykas National Technical University of Athens, Greece Miltiades Anagnostou National Technical University of Athens, Greece Developing Context-Aware Personal Smart Spaces ABSTRACT Current research on pervasive computing is opening the way for convergence between mobile telecom- munications and the Future Internet. This chapter introduces a novel approach to this convergence in the form of the self-improving Personal Smart Spaces (PSSs). PSSs aim to couple the facilities offered by next generation mobile communications with the features provided by the static smart spaces to support a more ubiquitous, context-aware and personalised smart space that is able to follow the user wherever he/she goes. Moreover, PSSs provide interfaces between the user and the various services and sensors which are, or will be, available via the Internet. In this respect, one of the core aspects that need to be supported within PSSs is the management of the user related context information. This chapter elaborates on the models and mechanisms that have been designed and implemented in order to address the advanced requirements of PSSs regarding the establishment of a robust distributed context management framework.