A Semantics-Based User Model for the Support of Personalized, Context-Aware Navigational Services

Author

Michou, Maria ; Bikakis, Antonis ; Patkos, Theodore ; Antoniou, Grigoris ; Plexousakis, Dimitris

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., FORTH, Heraklion

fYear

2008

fDate

1-1 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

50

Abstract

The ambient intelligence paradigm has evolved significantly during the last few years and aims at developing context-aware and adaptive systems that enable people to use personalized services. Context-awareness, semantics enriched services and adaptivity are among the features that characterize ambient intelligence systems. In this paper, we describe an ontology-based user model that captures and formally describes profile and context information, and enables rule-based reasoning on the available data to support personalized context-aware navigation services. We also describe how the proposed model is used as a basic building block for the development of a contextual guide for users in indoor environments, C-NGINE (contextual navigation guide for indoor environments).

Keywords

inference mechanisms; ontologies (artificial intelligence); ubiquitous computing; ambient intelligence paradigm; context-aware navigational services; ontology-based user model; personalized services; rule-based reasoning; semantics-based user model; Ambient intelligence; Context modeling; Context-aware services; Indoor environments; Logic; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Ontologies; Privacy; Space technology; context modeling; user modeling; user profiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ontologies in Interactive Systems, 2008. ONTORACT '08. First International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Liverpool

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3459-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ONTORACT.2008.8

Filename

4756194