An ontology-based context management and reasoning process for UbiComp applications

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 121, Issue , 2005, Pages 265-270

  Christopoulou, Eleni ^a   Goumopoulos, Christos ^a   Kameas, Achilles ^a,b  

^a University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION COMPOSITION; CONTEXT ACQUISITION; CONTEXT-AWARE; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; ONTOLOGY-BASED CONTEXT; REASONING PROCESS; UBICOMP; UBICOMP SYSTEMS; UNIVERSAL MODEL;

INFORMATION SERVICES; INNOVATION;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77953854828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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