An Efficient Rule-Based Distributed Reasoning Framework for Resource-bounded Systems

Rakib, Abdur; Uddin, Ijaz

Abstract

© 2018, The Author(s). Over the last few years, context-aware computing has received a growing amount of attention among the researchers in the IoT and ubiquitous computing community. In principle, context-aware computing transforms a physical environment into a smart space by sensing the surrounding environment and interpreting the situation of the user. This process involves three major steps: context acquisition, context modelling, and context-aware reasoning. Among other approaches, ontology-based context modelling and rule-based context reasoning are widely used techniques to enable semantic interoperability and interpreting user situations. However, implementing rich context-aware applications that perform reasoning on resource-bounded mobile devices is quite challenging. In this paper, we present a context-aware systems development framework for smart spaces, which includes a lightweight efficient rule engine and a wide range of user preferences to reduce the number of rules while inferring personalized contexts. This shows rules can be reduced in order to optimize the inference engine execution speed, and ultimately to reduce total execution time and execution cost.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 23, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Oct 23, 2018
• Publication Date: Feb 15, 2019
• Deposit Date: Sep 27, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 24, 2018
• Journal: Mobile Networks and Applications
• Print ISSN: 1383-469X
• Electronic ISSN: 1572-8153
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 82-99
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1140-x
• Keywords: rule-based reasoning, expert systems, preferences, context-aware systems
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/851611
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1140-x
• Contract Date: Sep 27, 2018