A context-aware middleware for multimodal dialogue applications with context tracing

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a context-aware middleware for multimodal dialogue applications. The middleware has the context tracing feature, which is the possibility of the middleware to explain why and how a situation occurs (or occurred). The middleware consists of several agents communicating with each other and an ontology is used to describe various concepts such as resources, situations, plans, structure of context history, and data to be exchanged between the agents.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
        I.2.11 Distributed Artificial Intelligence

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
context tracing, middleware, multimodal dialogue, ontology