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Personalization and rule strategies in data-intensive intelligent context-aware systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2015

Philip T. Moore  and
Hai V. Pham
Philip T. Moore
Affiliation:
Ubiquitous Awareness and Intelligent Solutions Lab (UAIS), School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P. R. China; Shandong Normal University, Jinan City, P. R. China e-mail: philip.moore@mail.bcu.ac.uk
Hai V. Pham
Affiliation:
Information Systems Department, School of Information Technology and Communication, Hanoi University of Science and Technolgy, Hanoi, Vietnam; Soft Intelligence Lab, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan e-mail: hai@spice.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp
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Abstract

The concept of personalization in its many forms has gained traction driven by the demands of computer-mediated interactions generally implemented in large-scale distributed systems and ad hoc wireless networks. Personalization requires the identification and selection of entities based on a defined profile (a context); an entity has been defined as a person, place, or physical or computational object. Context employs contextual information that combines to describe an entities current state. Historically, the range of contextual information utilized (in context-aware systems) has been limited to identity, location, and proximate data; there has, however, been advances in the range of data and information addressed. As such, context can be highly dynamic with inherent complexity. In addition, context-aware systems must accommodate constraint satisfaction and preference compliance.

This article addresses personalization and context with consideration of the domains and systems to which context has been applied and the nature of the contextual data. The developments in computing and service provision are addressed with consideration of the relationship between the evolving computing landscape and context. There is a discussion around rule strategies and conditional relationships in decision support. Logic systems are addressed with an overview of the open world assumption versus the closed world assumption and the relationship with the Semantic Web. The event-driven rule-based approach, which forms the basis upon which intelligent context processing can be realized, is presented with an evaluation and proof-of-concept. The issues and challenges identified in the research are considered with potential solutions and research directions; alternative approaches to context processing are discussed. The article closes with conclusions and open research questions.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 30 , Issue 2: Intelligent Computing in Large–Scale Systems , March 2015 , pp. 140 - 156
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© Cambridge University Press, 2015 

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