A top-level ontology for smart environments

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 359-378

  Ye, Juan ^a   Stevenson, Graeme ^a   Dobson, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Domain knowledge; Ontologies; Semantics; Smart home

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FORMAL METHODS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; FORMAL SEMANTICS; HIGHER-LEVEL INFORMATION; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTIMODAL SENSOR; SMART ENVIRONMENT; SMART HOMES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 79958190230     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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