An ontology-driven ambiguous contexts mediation framework for smart healthcare applications

1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Roy, Nirmalya ^a   Pallapa, Gautham ^a   Das, Sajal K ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Context awareness; Health monitoring; Multi sensor fusion; Ontology; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; HEALTH; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONTEXT INFORMATIONS; CONTEXT MEDIATIONS; CONTEXT- AWARE SERVICES; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; HEALTH CARE APPLICATIONS; HEALTH MONITORING; INDEPENDENT LIVINGS; MULTI SENSOR FUSION; NETWORKING ENVIRONMENTS; ON DYNAMICS; RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED; SEMANTIC WEB LANGUAGES; VITAL SIGNS; WELLNESS MANAGEMENTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 57549111877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389586.1389589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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