Ontology based context alignment for heterogeneous context aware services

Abstract

In a pervasive environment, context aware services are necessary to enable collaborate and communicate with others in order to provide proper service to users. Each service can be designed with individual context information which represents different perspective over the context. This paper proposes an advanced context management model with context alignment among heterogeneous context aware services. This model enable the interaction between context information producer devices and context information consumer devices and as well as their insertion in an open environment. And this paper show how this model can be used in context aware middleware. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2007.