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Nowadays energy-saving represents a mandatory requirement for building. Several efforts have been done both to reduce energy consumption and to promote alternative generation sources. By the way, in most of the existing systems these two faces of energy-conservation are managed in isolation. In this paper, we propose a novel holistic vision for a smart home environment, in which energy administration...
Recent research in pervasive computing and distributed decision support systems aims to enable users to share knowledge easily to support one another in problem solving in a manner that adapts to their varying contexts of work. However, existing approaches, most often, are restricted by formal models of task analysis and, as such, are not able to capture the informal work practices, which workers...
In present day globalised trade, the ability to support collaboration through B2B (Business-to-Business) services is crucial. One of the key challenges is to pervasively connect partners across the entire value chain, with the appropriate service offerings. Thus, it is vital to quickly identify potential partners to form new B2B collaborations or to support formed collaborations with swift decision...
Since 1960, lots of AI researchers work on intelligent and reactive architectures able to manage multiple events and act in the environment. This issue is also part of Robotics domain. A decision process must be implemented in the robot brain to accomplish the multimodal interaction with human in human environment. In this article, we present a semantic agents architecture giving the robot the ability...
The paper provides a global architectural and decision support solution for a reaction after alert detection mechanisms in the frame of information systems security applied to telecom infrastructures. Therefore, the architecture is developed in a distributed perspective and is composed of three basic layers: the low level that constitutes the interface between the architecture and the infrastructure...
Patent search requires identifying the boundaries of existing knowledge. Every patent request requires a decision maker to study all the aspects of the request. The paper describes a model for representing the patent request by a set of concepts related to existing knowledge ontology. The search for patent information is based on Fuzzy Logic decision support, allowing a more comprehensive search....
Ontology Matching (OM) consists of set of processes that decide and establish if ontology elements share lexical or semantic relationships. For a correct alignment, when we establish semantic relationships, it is necessary to find out the meaning of the elements that depends on the context. In this paper, we propose an extension of OWL called OWL-M to improve the representation of multiple types of...
Designing fusion systems for decision support in complex dynamic situations calls for an integrated human-machine information environment, in which some processes are best executed automatically while for others the judgment and guidance of human experts and end-users are critical. Thus decision making in such environment requires constant information exchange between human and automated agents that...
VA (Virtual Assembly) provided a numerical platform for assembly design. However, lacking of intelligent guide is a critical problem in assembly design with VA technology. This paper proposes a novel concept of context-aware in VA, and discusses the connotation and extension of it. Such context should be a small world context that provided intelligent for virtual environment, while an ontology-based...
In this work we present "AlertMe", a semantics-based, context-aware notification system that provides personalized alerts to graduate students based on their preferences. An extensive description of the system is carried out. We present the underlying ontology that models the available knowledge, as well as how higher level knowledge inference and context-based decision making is achieved...
In order to realise the goals of e-health, future e-health systems will require the capability to support patientspsila information management and medical decision making in an open and dynamic ubiquitous medical environment. Such an environment will be knowledge-rich, and sensitive and responsive to the needs of patients, and will allow effective collaborative healthcare service delivery by virtual...
Ontologies as a set of concepts and their relations have been proven useful in a wide range of areas. More importantly ontologies represent an essential technology for building semantic web applications. Help user orienting in a wide offering of ontologies on the Web is at root of making semantic Web practical. Thus, it is necessary to provide a simple, comprehensive and efficient tool to support...
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