Title :
A Semantics-Based User Model for the Support of Personalized, Context-Aware Navigational Services
Author :
Michou, Maria ; Bikakis, Antonis ; Patkos, Theodore ; Antoniou, Grigoris ; Plexousakis, Dimitris
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Sci., FORTH, Heraklion
Abstract :
The ambient intelligence paradigm has evolved significantly during the last few years and aims at developing context-aware and adaptive systems that enable people to use personalized services. Context-awareness, semantics enriched services and adaptivity are among the features that characterize ambient intelligence systems. In this paper, we describe an ontology-based user model that captures and formally describes profile and context information, and enables rule-based reasoning on the available data to support personalized context-aware navigation services. We also describe how the proposed model is used as a basic building block for the development of a contextual guide for users in indoor environments, C-NGINE (contextual navigation guide for indoor environments).
Keywords :
inference mechanisms; ontologies (artificial intelligence); ubiquitous computing; ambient intelligence paradigm; context-aware navigational services; ontology-based user model; personalized services; rule-based reasoning; semantics-based user model; Ambient intelligence; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Indoor environments; Logic; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Ontologies; Privacy; Space technology; context modeling; user modeling; user profiles;
Conference_Titel :
Ontologies in Interactive Systems, 2008. ONTORACT '08. First International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Liverpool
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3459-6
DOI :
10.1109/ONTORACT.2008.8
