A distributed reasoning engine ecosystem for semantic context-management in smart environments

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 10208-10227

  Almeida, Aitor ^a   López de Ipiña, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context aware systems; Distributed reasoning; Intelligent environments; Multi agent systems; Semantic inference

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER; CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED REASONING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC INFERENCE; SEMANTICS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED REASONING; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC INFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84865360218     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120810208     Document Type: Article

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