An ontology-based context management system for smart environments

UBICOMM 2012 - 6th International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 18-23

  McAvoy, Laura M ^a   Chen, Liming ^a   Donnelly, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context management; Inference and reasoning; Ontology based context modelling; Plug n measure mechanism; Smart environments

Indexed keywords

CONTENT RECOGNITION; CONTEXT MANAGEMENT; CONTEXT-MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; INFERENCE AND REASONING; INTELLIGENT MEETING ROOMS; ONTOLOGY-BASED CONTEXT; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; SMART ENVIRONMENT;

MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84881407737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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