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International Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context

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Steps Towards Making Contextualized Decisions: How to Do What You Can, with What You Have, Where You Are

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Applications need facilities for recognizing and adapting to context in order to provide useful and user-centered results. There are several problems to be addressed when building context-aware applications, two of which being how to defineand manage all available contextual information and how to distinguishrelevant from non-relevant context for a given task. In this paper, we focus on the second problem and propose a context definition and model for a context-aware agent. We exploit this model to build agents that learn to select relevant context and to use it to make decisions.

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  1. Centre G2I/SMA, Ecole NS des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 158 Cours Fauriel, Saint-Etienne, F-42023 Cedex 2, France

    Oana Bucur, Philippe Beaune & Olivier Boissier

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  1. Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer

  2. Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung, Germany

    Stefan Schulz

  3. Computer Science Department, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

    David B. Leake

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Bucur, O., Beaune, P., Boissier, O. (2006). Steps Towards Making Contextualized Decisions: How to Do What You Can, with What You Have, Where You Are. In: Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Schulz, S., Leake, D.B. (eds) Modeling and Retrieval of Context. MRC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11740674_5

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