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Reasoning about context in uncertain pervasive computing environments

conference contribution
posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by P Delir Haghighi, S Krishnaswamy, Arkady ZaslavskyArkady Zaslavsky, M M Gaber
Context-awareness is a key to enabling intelligent adaptation in pervasive computing applications that need to cope with dynamic and uncertain environments. Addressing uncertainty is one of the major issues in context-based situation modeling and reasoning approaches. Uncertainty can be caused by inaccuracy, ambiguity or incompleteness of sensed context. However, there is another aspect of uncertainty that is associated with human concepts and real-world situations. In this paper we propose and validate a Fuzzy Situation Inference (FSI) technique that is able to represent uncertain situations and reflect delta changes of context in the situation inference results. The FSI model integrates fuzzy logic principles into the Context Spaces (CS) model, a formal and general context reasoning and modeling technique for pervasive computing environments. The strengths of fuzzy logic for modeling and reasoning of imperfect context and vague situations are combined with the CS model's underlying theoretical basis for supporting context-aware pervasive computing scenarios. An implementation and evaluation of the FSI model are presented to highlight the benefits of the FSI technique for context reasoning under uncertainty. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

History

Volume

5279 LNCS

Pagination

112 - 125

ISSN

0302-9743

eISSN

1611-3349

ISBN-13

9783540887928

ISBN-10

354088792X

Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed

Title of proceedings

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)