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Ontonym: a collection of upper ontologies for developing pervasive systems

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Graeme Stevenson,

Paddy NixonAuthors Info & Claims

CIAO '09: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies

Article No.: 9, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/1552262.1552271

Published: 01 June 2009 Publication History

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Pervasive systems present the need to interpret large quantities of data from many sources. Context models support developers working with such data by providing a shared representation of the environment on which to base this interpretation. This paper presents a set of requirements for a context model that addresses uncertainty, provenance, sensing and temporal properties of context. Based on these requirements, we describe Ontonym, a set of ontologies that represent core concepts in pervasive computing. We propose a framework for evaluating ontologies in the pervasive computing domain by combining recognised techniques from the literature, and present a preliminary evaluation of Ontonym using these criteria.

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