Adaptive Semantic Support Provisioning in Mobile Internet Environments

The Mobile Internet scenario encourages the design and development of context-aware applications that provide results depending on context information, such as the relative position of users, user preferences, device capabilities and available resources. A key requirement for the provisioning of context-aware applications is to give computer systems the ability to understand context information. Semantic languages are well suited to leverage the possibility to express, process and reason about context information and to facilitate knowledge sharing and interoperability among previously unknown entities accessing services from heterogeneous devices. However, the exploitation of semantic languages for the design and deployment of context-aware applications raises new challenges, mainly due to the high degree of heterogeneity that mobile devices exhibit in terms of computing power, memory, operating system, and supported software. Semantic languages require complex and heavyweight suppor...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SAINT
• Authors: Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Toninelli
• Keywords: Context Information, Context-aware Applications, Internet Technology, SAINT 2005, Semantic Languages