Ontology-Based user context management: the challenges of imperfection and time-dependence

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • FZI Research Center for Information Technologies, Information Process Engineering, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Robust and scalable user context management is the key enabler for the emerging context- and situation-aware applications, and ontology-based approaches have shown their usefulness for capturing especially context information on a high level of abstraction But so far the problem has not been approached as a data management problem, which is key to scalability and robustness The specific challenges lie in the imperfection of high-level context information, its time-dependence and the variability in the dynamics between its different elements The approach presented in this paper presents a layered data model which structures the problems and is geared towards flexible and efficient query processing in combination of relational database and logic-based techniques The techniques have been successfully applied for context-aware corporate learning support.