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Context Ontologies in Ubiquitous Learning Environments

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Modeling ubiquitous context in u-learning systems is a challenging task. The model must include support for a variety of context information that differs in nature and granularity level. As such, a representation mechanism that allows an adequate manipulation of this kind of information is needed. Many researchers have proposed using ontologies to embody ubiquitous learning context information. In this paper, an overview of such models is presented, followed by a discussion of their main characteristics regarding the ontology model itself and the support the model provides to the u-learning system.

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  1. CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Y Tecnologías, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

    Gabriela González

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Tecnologías, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Santiago del Estero, Argentina

    Elena Durán

  3. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, ISISTAN (CONICET/UNICEN), Tandil, Argentina

    Analía Amandi

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    Manuel Montes y Gómez

  2. Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, INAOE , Puebla, Mexico

    Hugo Jair Escalante

  3. Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica , Heredia, Costa Rica

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  4. Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica , Heredia, Costa Rica

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González, G., Durán, E., Amandi, A. (2016). Context Ontologies in Ubiquitous Learning Environments. In: Montes y Gómez, M., Escalante, H., Segura, A., Murillo, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2016. IBERAMIA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47955-2_32

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