Context Representation and Reasoning with Formal Ontologies
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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.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011