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Knowledge networks for pervasive services

Authors:

Nicola Bicocchi,

Gabriella Castelli,

Franco Zambonelli,

Matthias Baumgarten,

Maurice MulvennaAuthors Info & Claims

ICPS '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services

Pages 103 - 112

https://doi.org/10.1145/1568199.1568215

Published: 13 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Technologies to pervasively acquire information about the physical and social worlds -- as needed by services to achieve context-awareness -- are becoming increasingly available. This calls for specific approaches to automatically organize and aggregate such data before delivering it to services. Contextual data items should form a sort of self-organized ecology within which they autonomously link and combine with each other into sorts of "knowledge networks". This can produce compact and easy-to-be-managed higher-level knowledge about situations occurring in the environment, and eventually can make services able to easily acquire "situation-awareness". In this paper, after having framed the key concepts and motivations underlying "situation-awareness" and our "knowledge networks" approach, we present the design and implementation of a "knowledge networks" prototype, intended as a tool to support self-organization and self-aggregation of contextual data item and to facilitate their exploitation by pervasive services. A representative case study in the area of adaptive pervasive advertisement is introduced to clarify the concepts expressed, to exemplify the actual functioning of the toolkit and of some specific algorithms integrated within it.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_13
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16089-9_9

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ICPS '09: Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services

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ISBN:9781605586441

DOI:10.1145/1568199

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University of Naples, Italy
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Castelli GMamei MZambonelli F(2010)A Self-organizing Approach for Building and Maintaining Knowledge NetworksMobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_13(175-188)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_13
Castelli GZambonelli F(2010)Contextual Data Management and Retrieval: A Self-organized ApproachInformation Retrieval and Mining in Distributed Environments10.1007/978-3-642-16089-9_9(145-162)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16089-9_9

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