Ontology-based activity recognition in intelligent pervasive environments

International Journal of Web Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 410-430

  Chen, Liming ^a   Nugent, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automation; Decision making

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ACTIVITY-BASED APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; INTELLIGENT PROCESSING; PERVASIVE ENVIRONMENTS; PROBABILISTIC REASONING;

AUTOMATION; DATA DESCRIPTION; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; ONTOLOGY; RESEARCH; REUSABILITY; SCALABILITY; SENSORS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 78449246293     PISSN: 17440084     EISSN: 1744092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17440080911006199     Document Type: Article

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