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FleXConf: A Flexible Conference Assistant Using Context-Aware Notification Services

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Integrating context-aware notification services to ubiquitous computing systems aims at the provision of the right information to the right users, at the right time, in the right place, and on the right device, and constitutes a significant step towards the realization of the Ambient Intelligence vision. In this paper, we present FlexConf, a semantics-based system that supports location-based, personalized notification services for the assistance of conference attendees. Its special features include an ontology-based representation model, rule-based context-aware reasoning, and a novel positioning system for indoor environments.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Crete, Greece

    Nikos Armenatzoglou, Yannis Marketakis, Lito Kriara, Elias Apostolopoulos, Vicky Papavasiliou, Dimitris Kampas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Eythimis Kartsonakis, Giorgos Linardakis, Sofia Nikitaki, Antonis Bikakis & Grigoris Antoniou

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece

    Nikos Armenatzoglou, Yannis Marketakis, Lito Kriara, Elias Apostolopoulos, Vicky Papavasiliou, Dimitris Kampas, Alexandros Kapravelos, Eythimis Kartsonakis, Giorgos Linardakis, Sofia Nikitaki, Antonis Bikakis & Grigoris Antoniou

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  2. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

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Armenatzoglou, N. et al. (2009). FleXConf: A Flexible Conference Assistant Using Context-Aware Notification Services. In: Meersman, R., Herrero, P., Dillon, T. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops. OTM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_20

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