Supporting pervasive computing applications with active context fusion and semantic context delivery

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-42

  Roy, Nirmalya ^a   Gu, Tao ^b   Das, Sajal K ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Context awareness; Context fusion; Ontology; Pervasive computing; SunSPOT

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION SERVICES; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

AMBIGUOUS CONTEXTS; CONTEXT AWARE SERVICES; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTEXT MEDIATION; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; REAL APPLICATIONS; SUNSPOT;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 74849114225     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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