Title
Knowledge networks for pervasive services
Abstract
Technologies to pervasively acquire information about the physical and social worlds -- as needed by services to achieve context-awareness -- are becoming increasingly available. This calls for specific approaches to automatically organize and aggregate such data before delivering it to services. Contextual data items should form a sort of self-organized ecology within which they autonomously link and combine with each other into sorts of "knowledge networks". This can produce compact and easy-to-be-managed higher-level knowledge about situations occurring in the environment, and eventually can make services able to easily acquire "situation-awareness". In this paper, after having framed the key concepts and motivations underlying "situation-awareness" and our "knowledge networks" approach, we present the design and implementation of a "knowledge networks" prototype, intended as a tool to support self-organization and self-aggregation of contextual data item and to facilitate their exploitation by pervasive services. A representative case study in the area of adaptive pervasive advertisement is introduced to clarify the concepts expressed, to exemplify the actual functioning of the toolkit and of some specific algorithms integrated within it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1568199.1568215
ICPS
Keywords
Field
DocType
key concept,easy-to-be-managed higher-level knowledge,actual functioning,self-organization,pervasive service,specific algorithm,knowledge networks,autonomously link,knowledge network,specific approach,contextual data item,adaptive pervasive advertisement,pervasive computing,context awareness,situation awareness,self organization
World Wide Web,Computer science,Self-organization,sort,Contextual design,Context awareness,Ubiquitous computing,Social worlds
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
22
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicola Bicocchi123322.11
Gabriella Castelli226320.63
Marco Mamei31521106.83
Alberto Rosi438122.56
Franco Zambonelli54662330.78
Matthias Baumgarten610613.54
Maurice D. Mulvenna752963.64