Hierarchical situation modeling and reasoning for pervasive computing

Sik-Sang Yau, Junwei Liu

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Abstract

Situation awareness is one of the most fundamental features of entities in pervasive computing environments to dynamically adapt their behavior to situation changes to satisfy user requirements, including security and privacy. In order to support situation-aware adaptation, it is necessary to model and specify context and situation in a way such that multiple entities can easily exchange, share and reuse their knowledge on context and situation. In this paper, an OWL-based situation ontology to model situation hierarchically to facilitate sharing and reusing of situation knowledge and logic inferences is presented. The conversion of OWL situation ontology specifications to the First-Order Logic (FOL) representations, and the performance of FOL rule-based reasoning in terms of problem size and time are discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProc. - The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Software Technol. for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, SEUS 2006 andthe Second Int. Workshop on Collaborative Computing, Integr., and Assurance, WCCIA 2006
Pages5-10
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 16 2006
Event4th IEEE Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, SEUS 2006 andthe 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Computing, Integration, and Assurance, WCCIA 2006 - Gyeongju, Korea, Republic of
Duration: Apr 27 2006Apr 28 2006

Publication series

NameProc. - The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Software Technol. for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Syst., SEUS 2006 andthe Second Int. Workshop on Collaborative Comput., Integr., and Assur., WCCIA 2006
Volume2006

Other

Other4th IEEE Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, SEUS 2006 andthe 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Computing, Integration, and Assurance, WCCIA 2006
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityGyeongju
Period4/27/064/28/06

Keywords

  • Ontology and OWL
  • Pervasive computing
  • Semantic web
  • Situation awareness
  • Situation modeling
  • Situation reasoning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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