Abstract
Context modelling is one of the stages conducted during the context life cycle. It has the aim of giving meaning and structure to the collected context’s raw data. Although there are different context models proposed in the literature, we have identified some gaps that are not fully covered, particularly related to the reusability of the models themselves and the lack of consolidated and standardized ontological resources. To tackle this problem, we adopt a three-layered context ontology perspective and we focus on this paper in the middle layer, which is defined following a prescriptive process and structured in a modular way for supporting reuse.
This work is partially supported by the Spanish project TIN2013-44641-P.
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For the sake of brevity we do not specify the 64 references of the ontologies selected and other resources of the mapping study that were used in this work; you may find them at [16].
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Unlike Pinto and Martins, we base the selection on the analysis previously made.
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Cabrera, O., Franch, X., Marco, J. (2015). A Middle-Level Ontology for Context Modelling. In: Johannesson, P., Lee, M., Liddle, S., Opdahl, A., Pastor López, Ó. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9381. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25264-3_11
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