Entity Profiling: Context with Ontology

An entities profile, termed context, is fundamental in context-aware computing. Context definitions can provide the basis upon which ontologies can be achieved, an ontology being the conceptualisation of a domain. This paper proposes an approach to the definition of context and presents a discussion on ontology. The issues that impact the implementation of ontologies are discussed and intelligent multi-agent systems are introduced. There is consideration of potential implementation options with identified open research questions. The paper concludes that RDF with OWL and Jena provides a basis for ontology realisation and proposes decision trees to enable the implementation of ontologies