SmartCon: a context-aware service discovery and selection mechanism using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Authors:
  • Eyhab Al-Masri;Qusay H. Mahmoud

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.;Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we present SmartCon, a context-aware system forthe discovery and selection of mobile services using ArtificialNeural Networks (ANNs). The solution we have developed is a mobileagent-enabled system that adaptively and iteratively learns toselect the best available mobile service derived from theextraction of a series of features utilising contextual informationsuch as the Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP),service-specific and non-uniform user-specific features which aresupplied to a Back-Propagation Neural Network. Based on thefeatures provided, the neural network classifies the most relevantmobile service. In the present work, the system is also capablethrough iterative learning to generalise and gather informationusing cognitive feedback based on the user's decisions andinteractivity with a Mobile Device. SmartCon is evaluated using aseries of preliminary empirical data and results show an 87%success rate in the discovery and selection of the best or mostrelevant mobile service.