Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker
Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi · 2005
Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware en-vironment in which agents with limited resources will re-quire external support to help them become context-aware. In this paper, we describe an agent based architecture called Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) to help these agents to acquire, reason about and share context knowledge. A key component in our architecture is an explicit context on-tology defined using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). This ontology models the basic concepts of people, agents, places, and presentation events. We also describe a use case scenario and prototype design of CoBrA in an intelligent meeting room environment. 1.