This thesis investigates the question whether and how ontologies such as the ones currently evolving in the Semantic Web can serve as knowledge structures for the generation of que...
An ontology is a formal conceptualization of a domain, specifying the concepts of the domain and the relations between them. It is however not a straight forward task to use this ...
This paper presents a context management system for supporting context-aware applications in a smart home. In a ubiquitous computing environment context changes dynamically and th...
Abstract. A viable ontology engineering methodology requires supporting domain experts in gradually building and managing increasingly complex versions of ontological elements and ...
Abstract. Contextual ontologies are ontologies that characterize a concept by a set of properties that vary according to context. Contextual ontologies are now crucial for users wh...
Djamal Benslimane, Ahmed Arara, Gilles Falquet, Za...