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An Ontology-Based Context Model in a Smart Home

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This paper introduces an ontology-based context model in ubiquitous computing environment. We describe a Getting up scenario to show whether the model is valuable for description of context information in a home domain. We modeled context metadata as well as context information. Context metadata are defined for the use of additional context information such as probabilistic or fuzzy logic reasoning, rich understanding, or efficient context information collection. In addition we developed a context ontology server that manages and processes context information and metadata, and it is based on the ontology-based context model which is introduced in this paper. We used OWL (Web Ontology Language) for modeling the context, and extended the OWL language to represent context metadata.

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  1. School of Computing, Soongsil University, 1-1 Sangdo-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156-743, Korea

    Eunhoe Kim & Jaeyoung Choi

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd.,, Cathedral House 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Kim, E., Choi, J. (2006). An Ontology-Based Context Model in a Smart Home. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751632_2

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