An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments

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An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)

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by Harry Chen , Tim Finin , Anupam Joshi

Venue:	Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems, Knowledge Engineering Review
Citations:	257 - 9 self

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@ARTICLE{Chen03anontology,
    author = {Harry Chen and Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi},
    title = {An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments},
    journal = {Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems, Knowledge Engineering Review},
    year = {2003},
    volume = {18},
    pages = {197--207}
}

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Abstract

Ontologies are a key component for building open and dynamic distributed pervasive computing systems in which agents and devices share contextual information. We describe our use of the Web Ontology Language OWL and other tools for building the foundation ontology for the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA), a new context-aware pervasive computing framework. The current version of the CoBrA ontology models the basic concepts of people, agents, places, and presentation events in an intelligent meeting room environment. It provides a vocabulary of terms for classes and properties suitable for building practical systems that model context in pervasive computing environments. We also describe our ongoing research in developing an OWL inference engine using Flora-2 and in extending the present CoBrA ontology to use the DAML spatial and temporal ontologies.

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context-aware pervasive computing environment pervasive computing environment temporal ontology cobra ontology model intelligent meeting room environment device share contextual information web ontology language owl basic concept new context-aware pervasive computing framework practical system daml spatial current version key component ongoing research owl inference engine foundation ontology context broker architecture present cobra ontology presentation event

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