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Engineering Knowledge for Assistive Living

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 6291))

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This paper introduces a knowledge based approach to assistive living in smart homes. It proposes a system architecture that makes use of knowledge in the lifecycle of assistive living. The paper describes ontology based knowledge engineering practices and discusses mechanisms for exploiting knowledge for activity recognition and assistance. It presents system implementation and experiments, and discusses initial results.

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  1. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, United Kingdom

    Liming Chen & Chris Nugent

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  1. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, UK

    Yaxin Bi

  2. Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory, University of Technology, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Mary-Anne Williams

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Chen, L., Nugent, C. (2010). Engineering Knowledge for Assistive Living. In: Bi, Y., Williams, MA. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_60

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