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Configurable semantic services leveraging applications context-aware

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In order to tackle the complex and time-consuming task of building context-aware applications, the literature has reported the development of service infrastructures for context management. This paper presents the service infrastructure for semantic context management Semantic Context Kernel, which provides a novel set of semantic-enabled services. Those services can be personalized according to context-aware applications' requirements so as to facilitate the prototyping of such applications. We also show how a web-based recommender system can make use of those services to store, query and reason about context.

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WebMedia '05: Proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the web
December 2005
134 pages
ISBN:9781450378024
DOI:10.1145/1114223
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