Design and implementation of a semantics-based contextual navigation guide for indoor environments

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-285

  Kritsotakis, Manolis ^a   Michou, Maria ^a   Nikoloudakis, Emmanouil ^a   Bikakis, Antonis ^a   Patkos, Theodore ^a   Antoniou, Grigoris ^a   Plexousakis, Dimitris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Path deviation; Rule based context reasoning; Semantic context modeling; Semantic user profiles; Semantics based navigation; User tracking

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT REASONING; PATH DEVIATION; RULE BASED; RULE-BASED CONTEXT REASONING; SEMANTIC CONTEXT; USER PROFILE; USER TRACKING;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FORMAL METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 78651553386     PISSN: 18761364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2009-0033     Document Type: Article

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