Context Representation and Reasoning with Formal Ontologies

Ontologies are not only becoming a widespread formalism to create the knowledge base of current intelligent and semantic systems, but they are also suitable for modeling context information in ubiquitous applications, which require expressive representation and reasoning languages. In this paper, we discuss different approaches for ontological context management, as well as a proposal to represent and exploit significance-based relations with standard and fuzzy ontologies.

[1]  Jack Minker,et al.  An Overview of Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Logic Programming , 1993, J. Log. Program..

[2]  Tao Gu,et al.  A service-oriented middleware for building context-aware services , 2005, J. Netw. Comput. Appl..

[3]  Stephen Cranefield,et al.  Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences , 2005 .

[4]  Pierre Siegel,et al.  Saturation, Nonmonotonic Reasoning and the Closed-World Assumption , 1985, Artif. Intell..

[5]  Umberto Straccia,et al.  fuzzyDL: An expressive fuzzy description logic reasoner , 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence).

[6]  Umberto Straccia,et al.  Fuzzy description logics under Gödel semantics , 2009, Int. J. Approx. Reason..

[7]  Miguel A. Patricio,et al.  Ontology-based context representation and reasoning for object tracking and scene interpretation in video , 2011, Expert Syst. Appl..

[8]  Juan Gómez Romero,et al.  Knowledge mobilization: architectures, models and applications , 2011 .

[9]  Steffen Staab,et al.  Engineering Ontologies using Semantic Patterns , 2001, OIS@IJCAI.

[10]  Fernando Bobillo,et al.  Representation of context-dependant knowledge in ontologies: A model and an application , 2008, Expert Syst. Appl..

[11]  C.-H. Liu,et al.  Ontology-Based Context Representation and Reasoning Using OWL and SWRL , 2010, 2010 8th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference.

[12]  Peter F. Patel-Schneider,et al.  OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Primer (Second Edition) , 2012 .

[13]  Xiaomin Zhu,et al.  Fuzzy logic and the semantic Web , 2007, J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol..

[14]  Alan L. Rector,et al.  GALEN Ten Years On: Tasks and Supporting Tools , 2001, MedInfo.

[15]  Thomas R. Gruber,et al.  A translation approach to portable ontology specifications , 1993 .

[16]  Ramanathan V. Guha,et al.  Contexts for the Semantic Web , 2004, SEMWEB.

[17]  Elie Sanchez,et al.  Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web (Capturing Intelligence) , 2006 .

[18]  Ora Lassila,et al.  Contextualizing applications via semantic middleware , 2005, The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services.

[19]  Fernando Bobillo,et al.  Crisp Representations and Reasoning for Fuzzy Ontologies , 2009, Int. J. Uncertain. Fuzziness Knowl. Based Syst..

[20]  Gregory D. Abowd,et al.  Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness , 1999, HUC.

[21]  V. Svátek.  Design Patterns for Semantic Web Ontologies : Motivation and Discussion , 2004 .

[22]  James A. Hendler,et al.  The Semantic Web" in Scientific American , 2001 .

[23]  Huajun Chen,et al.  The Semantic Web , 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[24]  Aldo Gangemi,et al.  Ontology Design Patterns for Semantic Web Content , 2005, SEMWEB.

[25]  Frank van Harmelen,et al.  Contextualizing ontologies , 2004, J. Web Semant..

[26]  M. Delgado,et al.  Representation of Context-Dependent Relevance Relations with Fuzzy Ontologies , 2008 .

[27]  Roy H. Campbell,et al.  Reasoning about Uncertain Contexts in Pervasive Computing Environments , 2004, IEEE Pervasive Comput..

[28]  Umberto Straccia,et al.  Managing uncertainty and vagueness in description logics for the Semantic Web , 2008, J. Web Semant..

[29]  Harry Chen,et al.  Intelligent Agents Meet the Semantic Web in Smart Spaces , 2004, IEEE Internet Comput..

[30]  Albrecht Schmidt,et al.  There is more to context than location , 1999, Comput. Graph..

[31]  Eva Blomqvist.  Semi-automatic Ontology Engineering Using Patterns , 2007, ISWC/ASWC.

[32]  Roy H. Campbell,et al.  A Middleware for Context-Aware Agents in Ubiquitous Computing Environments , 2003, Middleware.