Cyberguide: a mobile context-aware tour guide
Wireless Networks - Special issue: mobile computing and networking: selected papers from MobiCom '96
A Conceptual Model of Wayfinding Using Multiple Levels of Abstraction
Proceedings of the International Conference GIS - From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space
A Probabilistic Room Location Service for Wireless Networked Environments
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Toward a Framework for Evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Applications
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Jena: implementing the semantic web recommendations
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Ontological Engineering: with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
A user modeling markup language (userML) for ubiquitous computing
UM'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on User modeling
Gumo: the general user model ontology
UM'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on User Modeling
C-NGINE: A Contextual Navigation Guide for Indoor Environments
AmI '08 Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
Design and implementation of a semantics-based Contextual Navigation Guide for Indoor Environments
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Towards a semantic spatial model for pedestrian indoor navigation
ER'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Advances in conceptual modeling: foundations and applications
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness
Design and implementation of a semantics-based Contextual Navigation Guide for Indoor Environments
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Context-aware modelling of continuous location-dependent queries in indoor environments
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Context Awareness
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Location-based mobile services have been in use, and studied, for a long time. With the proliferation of wireless networking technologies, users are mostly interested in advanced services that render the surrounding environment (i.e., the building) highly intelligent and significantly facilitate their activities. In this paper our focus is on indoor navigation, one of the most important location services. Existing approaches for indoor navigation are driven by geometric information and neglect important aspects, such as the semantics of space and user capabilities and context. The derived applications are not intelligent enough to catalytically contribute to the pervasive computing vision. In this paper, a novel navigation mechanism is introduced. Such navigation scheme is enriched with user profiles and the adoption of an ontological framework. These enhancements introduce a series of technical challenges that are extensively discussed throughout the paper.