Hybrid reasoning in the CARE middleware for context awareness

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-23

  Agostini, Alessandra ^a   Bettini, Claudio ^b   Riboni, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Hybrid reasoning; Logic programming; Middleware; Mobile computing; Ontological reasoning; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE ADAPTATION; HYBRID REASONINGS; INTERNET SERVICES; MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT; ONTOLOGICAL REASONING; ONTOLOGY-BASED CONTEXT; PERFORMANCE ISSUES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 67649170977     PISSN: 14761289     EISSN: 17419212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2009.025011     Document Type: Article

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