COIVA: Context-aware and ontology-powered information visualization architecture

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-426

  Hervás, Ramón ^a   Bravo, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

context awareness; knowledge management; ontology; semantic web; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT INFORMATION; CONTEXT MODELS; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CONTEXT-AWARE; CONTEXT-MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SERVICES; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; IMPLEMENT MECHANISMS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTEROPERATIONS; RUNTIME ADAPTATION; RUNTIMES; SMART ENVIRONMENT; USER-CENTERED; WEB SEMANTICS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VISUALIZATION;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 79952462565     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.1011     Document Type: Article

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