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ABSTRACT

Considering the current efforts to deal with performance evaluation of ubiquitous computing services, we focus on evaluating a context inference service that can be configured according to applications' reasoning requirements. After detailing a performance evaluation of a context inference service with multiple inference engines over semantic context information, we discuss general reasoning-related issues that developers must take into account when building ontology-based ubiquitous applications.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.4 PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.8 Metrics
          Subjects: Performance measures

General Terms:
Experimentation, Performance

Keywords:
context-aware, ontology, performance, reasoning