NDLI: Adaptive Semantic Support Provisioning in Mobile Internet Environments

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Corradi, A. Montanari, R. Toninelli, A.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Università di Bologna (Corradi, A.)
Abstract	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 support facilities, e.g. metadata interpreters, reasoning engines and ontology repositories, that may not fit the capabilities of all user access devices, especially of the resource-limited ones. Novel solutions are required that are capable of transparently and dynamically adapting semantic support functionalities to the properties of the different user access devices. The paper proposes a novel middleware solution that exploits the visibility of two kinds of metadata, user/device profiles and policies, to tailor semantic support functionalities and that offers a wide set of mechanisms for providing on demand appropriate semantic support to mobile portable devices.
Starting Page	154
Ending Page	157
File Size	95447
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769522637
DOI	10.1109/SAINTW.2005.1620000
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2005-01-31
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Internet Ontologies Application software Search engines Middleware Personal digital assistants Context-aware services Mobile computing Portable computers Operating systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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