… environmental change. In this paper, we propose a universal ontology for smart environments
aiming firstly to overcome the limitations of the existing ontologies, and secondly extend its …

… ontology across the range of different smart environments. This paper proposes a single,
upper-level context ontology for smart environments, … for context within smart environments in a …

… a smart environment can be better supported by ontological … ontological models define a
semantic mapping between the user’s behaviour and the available resources in the environment…

… such environments is ontology-driven. The goals are to raise the level of abstraction of smart
… In this paper, we describe the Smart ModeUer that consists of 1) a design tool that enables …

… (3) Ontologies provide various complex efficient inference mechanisms to deduce high-…
ontology-based context model which describes contextual entities in a smart space environment …

… an ontology for incorporating Ambient Intelligence in Smart Buildings. The ontology extends
and benefits from existing ontologies … of a service-oriented smart building system. Namely, it …

… , but also constrains the user to specific ontologies that describe services in smart environments,
thus mitigating the problem of conflicting semantic information discussed in Section V. …

… the ontology for embodied interactive smart environments. In building this ontology, the
general practice of defining a number of competency questions upfront that the ontology should …

… In this work, the use of ontologies is proposed for the fully … stream generated by a smart
environment into classical feature vectors … Then, some relevant concepts related to ontologies are …

… To evaluate the proposed human activity ontology, this section describes a proof of concept
in smart home domain. The specified scenario presented in Section 3 is revisited to provide …