Ontology-based Context Modeling to Facilitate Reasoning in a Context-Aware System: A Case Study for the Smart Home
Md. Robiul Hoque, Humayun Kabir, Keshav Thapa, Sung‐Hyun Yang · International Journal of Smart Home · 2015
A context-aware system provides services based on the current context of the environment and user activities.So, context management and reasoning in context-aware systems are important tasks.A formal context model based on ontology can play a vital role in facilitating reasoning by formally representing domain knowledge.This paper presents an ontology-based reusable generic context model for context-aware systems.This model provides a context vocabulary and structure for contexts and their semantics which are essential for reasoning.We evaluate the effectiveness of this model for both ontology and rule-based reasoning in the smart home domain and the result we obtain is promising.