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The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing

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Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences

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This paper describes SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications) and the use of this ontology in building the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA). CoBrA is a new agent architecture for supporting pervasive context-aware systems in a smart space environment. The SOUPA ontology is expressed using the Web Ontology Language OWL and includes modular component vocabularies to represent intelligent agents with associated beliefs, desire, and intentions, time, space, events, user profiles, actions, and policies for security and privacy. Central to CoBrA is an intelligent broker agent that exploits ontologies to support knowledge sharing, context reasoning, and user privacy protection. We also describe two prototype systems that we have developed to demonstrate the feasibility and the use of CoBrA.

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    Harry Chen, Tim Finin & Anupam Joshi

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  1. Agent Applications, Research and Technology Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, Great Britain

    Valentina Tamma

  2. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Stephen Cranefield

  3. 329 Information Technology and Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250, USA

    Timothy W. Finin

  4. Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Modul C5, 211b Campus Nord, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Steven Willmott

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Chen, H., Finin, T., Joshi, A. (2005). The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing. In: Tamma, V., Cranefield, S., Finin, T.W., Willmott, S. (eds) Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7361-X_10

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