Configurable semantic services leveraging applications context-aware

ABSTRACT

In order to tackle the complex and time-consuming task of building context-aware applications, the literature has reported the development of service infrastructures for context management. This paper presents the service infrastructure for semantic context management Semantic Context Kernel, which provides a novel set of semantic-enabled services. Those services can be personalized according to context-aware applications' requirements so as to facilitate the prototyping of such applications. We also show how a web-based recommender system can make use of those services to store, query and reason about context.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia

General Terms:
Experimentation

Keywords:
context-aware, recommender system, semantic web