Status: Past project

Project Description:
Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting rooms, smart homes, and smart vehicles). Central to this architecture is an intelligent agent called context broker that maintains a shared model of context on the behalf of a community of agents, services, and devices in the space and provides privacy protections for the users in the space by enforcing the policy rules that they define.

Start Date: September 2002

End Date: October 2005

Principal Investigator:
Harry Chen, Part of his PhD disseration research

Faculty:
Tim Finin
Anupam Joshi
Yun Peng

Students:
Anubhav Sonthalia

Tags: context, pervasive computing, semantic web, ontology

There are 16 associated publications:
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1. A Proposal for Pervasive Computing Standard Ontology, Document.

2. An Intelligent Broker for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems, Presentation.

3. CoBrA, Web Site.

4. F-OWL, Web Site.

5. My Experience in Building Ontology-driven Applications, Presentation.

6. My Experience in Building the CoBrA Eclipse Viewer, Presentation.

7. Semantic Web in UbiComp SIG, Web Site.

Research Areas:
 Context-Aware Computing
 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
 Mobile Computing
 Multi-Agent Systems
 Security, Trust and Privacy
 Semantic Web

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1. (Project) Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) has developer (Person) Harry Chen.
2. (Project) Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) has principal investigator (Person) Harry Chen