Generic context ontology modelling: A review and framework

Improvements in context modelling and reasoning techniques have facilitated the development of context-aware applications, where these applications need to accommodate and respond autonomously to changing context information. Context is often used to refer to any piece of information regarding the surrounding environment, where human activities and computing tasks take place. In this paper, we propose a generic context model, which consists of three fundamental classes, namely Extrinsic Context, Interface Context, and Intrinsic Context. The goal of the proposed framework is to represent context information in general, which can be implemented to facilitate common context representation, context matching, and context reasoning.