PERSONAF: framework for personalised ontological reasoning in pervasive computing

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Abstract. Pervasive computing creates possibilities for presenting highly personalised information about the people, places and things in a building. One of the challenges for such personalisation is the creation of the system that can support ontological reasoning for several key tasks: reasoning about location; personalisation of information about location at the right level of detail; and personalisation to match each person's conceptions of the building based on their own use of it and their relationship to other people in the building. From pragmatic perspectives, it should be inexpensive to create the ontology for each new building. It is also critical that users should be able to understand and control pervasive applications. We created the PERSONAF (personalised pervasive scrutable ontological framework) to address these challenges. is a new abstract framework for pervasive ontological reasoning. We report its evaluation at three levels. First, we assessed the power of the...

William T. Niu, Judy Kay

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