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Sharing and Reusing Context Information in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

2014 , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , González-Mendoza, Miguel

In highly dynamic environments it is not enough to model the user in order to provide proactive and personalized services. User features, preferences and needs change depending on different contextual aspects such as physical, social and computational conditions. Taking context into account in these environments implies coping with high openness and dynamicity of users and devices. Moreover, context modeling and context management is a complex task performed repeatedly in distributed environments, and users constantly share information about current activities, location, social events, goals, etc. In different applications. There is huge context information scattered over user's applications and devices that can be taken advantage of to provide more accurate adaptation and personalization. In this paper, we analyze the literature solutions with a focus on context information interoperability. We aim to identify basic requirements to perform the complex task of sharing and reusing context information between heterogeneous context providers and context consumers.

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Towards an ontology for ubiquitous user modeling interoperability

2012 , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , González-Mendoza, Miguel

In order to obtain a broader understanding of the user, some researchers in the community of user modeling envision the need to share information of user models between applications. But gathering distributed user information from heterogeneous sources to obtain user models interoperability implies handling syntactic and semantic heterogeneity. It is also important to provide means for a ubiquitous user model to evolve over time. We present U2MIO a dynamic ontology with flexible structure for user modeling interoperability based in SKOS ontology. The U2MIO provides mediation based user modeling for sharing and reusing information from heterogeneous user models. A two-tier matching strategy is proposed for the process of concept alignment that permits the interoperability between profile suppliers and consumers.

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An ontology driven multi-agent system for client assignment in a bank queue

2010 , Martinez-Villaseñor, Lourdes , González-Marrón, David , González-Mendoza, Miguel , Hernández Gress, Neil

This paper presents an ontology driven multi-agent system that uses a negotiation process for decision support in a Bak Queue. The system assists queue client assignment based on the client profile and the cashiers’ workload in order to guarantee a minimum time response in client attention.