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A Layered Model for User Context Management with Controlled Aging and Imperfection Handling

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Modeling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2005)

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Current research in context-awareness is biased toward low-level context information. High-level context information, however, poses several challenges to context management systems, which can be traced back to the asynchronicity of context acquisition and use and the inherent dynamics and imperfection in that process. This paper presents a three layer model allowing for dealing with the problems of imperfection and aging in a controlled way. It conceives the problem of high-level user context management as an information management problem with specific requirements. The approach has been applied to a context-aware learning environment for corporate learning support.

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    Andreas Schmidt

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  1. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer

  2. Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany

    Stefan Schulz

  3. Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

    David B. Leake

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Schmidt, A. (2006). A Layered Model for User Context Management with Controlled Aging and Imperfection Handling. In: Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Schulz, S., Leake, D.B. (eds) Modeling and Retrieval of Context. MRC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11740674_6

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