The computer for the 21st century
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review - Special issue dedicated to Mark Weiser
A Middleware Infrastructure for Active Spaces
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Ontology Based Context Modeling and Reasoning using OWL
PERCOMW '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
An ontology for context-aware pervasive computing environments
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Use of ontologies in a pervasive computing environment
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Semantic Space: An Infrastructure for Smart Spaces
IEEE Pervasive Computing
A Framework and Ontology for Dynamic Web Services Selection
IEEE Internet Computing
UPOS: User Profile Ontology with Situation-Dependent Preferences Support
ACHI '08 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interaction
Ontology-based models in pervasive computing systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Improved Weighted Centroid Localization in Smart Ubiquitous Environments
UIC '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
DogOnt - Ontology Modeling for Intelligent Domotic Environments
ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
Semantic approach for modelling an assistive environment using description logic
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Toward autonomic pervasive computing
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Virtual space ontologies for scripting agents
MMAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Massively Multi-Agent Systems
Gumo: the general user model ontology
UM'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on User Modeling
Contextualised ambient intelligence through case-based reasoning
ECCBR'06 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
Indoor and outdoor localization architecture for pervasive environment
ICOST'10 Proceedings of the Aging friendly technology for health and independence, and 8th international conference on Smart homes and health telematics
Macro and micro context-awareness for autonomic pervasive computing
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
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The growth of ubiquitous computing and its integration in smart environments constitutes a major challenge. However, many issues related to this technology were raised, and many efforts have been made to facilitate the implementation of such technology. Information management, sharing and reuse are examples of these issues. Ontologies are used in this context as promising solution to deal with these issues. Nevertheless, ontologies developed to date in the context of smart environments are limited and do not address all aspects of smart environments such as the problem of referentiality and the environmental change. In this paper, we propose a universal ontology for smart environments aiming firstly to overcome the limitations of the existing ontologies, and secondly extend its capabilities by adding new environmental aspects such as those mentioned previously. In this paper, we also demonstrate how our ontology can be used to describe domains as well as applications.