Accession Number:

ADA439512

Title:

Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

MARYLAND UNIV BALTIMORE DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Chen, Harry
• Finin, Tim
• Joshi, Anupam

Report Date:

2005-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment in which agents with limited resources will require external support to help them become context-aware. In this paper, we describe an agent based architecture called Context Broker Architecture CoBrA to help these agents to acquire, reason about and share context knowledge. A key component in our architecture is an explicit context ontology defined using the Web Ontology Language OWL. This ontology models the basic concepts of people, agents, places and presentation events. We also describe a use case scenario and prototype design of CoBrA in an intelligent meeting room environment.

Descriptors:

• *INDUCED ENVIRONMENTS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• SCENARIOS
• COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• PROTOTYPES
• LANGUAGE
• DATA FUSION

Subject Categories:

• Linguistics
• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE