ONTOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS FOR THE INTELLIGENT HOSPITAL WARD

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kataria, P. | Macfie, A. | Juric, R. | Madani, K.

Affiliations: School of Informatics, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Abstract: We have designed and implemented a Context-aware ONTOlogical (C-ONTO) schema for pervasive computing environments in hospitals. The schema contains semantics for situation awareness, which has been drawn from sensor-derived information about patients, called local contexts; changes to these contexts, and users involved in, and actions taken as a result of, these context changes. We have modeled and implemented situation awareness in C-ONTO through the transitive relationship between its ontological classes.

Keywords: context awareness, situation awareness, ontology, pervasive computing

Journal: Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 35-44, 2008