Towards a model-driven approach for ontology-based context-aware application development: A case study

Abstract

Context-awareness is an essential characteristic for pervasive applications to enhance their flexibility and adaptability to changing conditions and dynamic environments. Using ontologies to model context information and reason about context at a semantic level has attracted a lot of interest in the research community. However, adopting ontologies in the development process of pervasive services introduces additional burden by the further work required for ontology specification and management. This paper studies the use of OMG's Model Driven Architecture in the development process of pervasive services with intent on reducing this burden. In our previous work, we proposed a Context Ontology Model (COM) and a Model Driven Integration Architecture (MDIA) for ontology-based context information modelling and Context-Aware Application (CAA) development. In this paper, we present a model transformation mechanism for the generation of the CAA logic and present a case study on a context-aware pervasive service scenario that explains in deep detail how the proposed approach works in practice. © 2007 IEEE.