A survey of context modelling and reasoning techniques

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 161-180

  Bettini, Claudio ^a   Brdiczka, Oliver ^b   Henricksen, Karen ^c   Indulska, Jadwiga ^d   Nicklas, Daniela ^e   Ranganathan, Anand ^f   Riboni, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^f IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Context management; Context modelling; Context reasoning; Quality of context; Situation modelling

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT MANAGEMENT; CONTEXT MODELLING; CONTEXT REASONING; QUALITY OF CONTEXTS; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; REAL WORLD SITUATIONS; REASONING TECHNIQUES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950189737     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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