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This paper describes a context modelling approach using ontologies as a formal fundament. We introduce our Aspect-Scale-Context (ASC) model and show how it is related to some other models. A Context Ontology Language (CoOL) is derived from the model, which may be used to enable context-awareness and contextual interoperability during service discovery and execution in a proposed distributed system architecture. A core component of this architecture is a reasoner which infers conclusions about the context based on an ontology built with CoOL.
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Strang, T., Linnhoff-Popien, C., Frank, K. (2003). CoOL: A Context Ontology Language to Enable Contextual Interoperability. In: Stefani, JB., Demeure, I., Hagimont, D. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2893. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40010-3_21
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