Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences

The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing

Harry Chen, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi

July 1, 2005

This paper describes SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications) and the use of this ontology in building the Con- text Broker Architecture (CoBrA). CoBrA is a new agent architecture for supporting pervasive context-aware systems in a smart space environment. The SOUPA ontology is expressed using the Web Ontology Language OWL and includes modular component vocabularies to represent intelligent agents with associated beliefs, desire, and intentions, time, space, events, user pro- files, actions, and policies for security and privacy. Central to CoBrA is an intelligent broker agent that exploits ontologies to support knowledge sharing, context reasoning, and user privacy protection. We also describe two proto- type systems that we have developed to demonstrate the feasibility and the use of CoBrA.

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Tags: cobra, ontology, pervasive computing, privacy, soupa

Type: InBook

Publisher: Springer

Valentina Tamma, Stephen Cranefield, Tim Finin, and Steven Willmott

Series: Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies

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