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Application-Oriented Context Pre-fetch Method for Enhancing Inference Performance in Ontology-based Context Management  

Lee Jae-Ho (삼성전자 정보통신 사업부)
Park In-Suk (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
Lee Dong-Man (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
Hyun Soon-Joo (한국정보통신대학교 공학부)
Abstract
Ontology-based context models are widely used in ubiquitous computing environment because they have advantages in the acquisition of conceptual context through inferencing, context sharing, and context reusing. Among the benefits, inferencing enables context-aware applications to use conceptual contexts which cannot be acquired by sensors. However, inferencing causes processing delay and thus becomes the major obstacle to the implementation of context-aware applications. The delay becomes longer as the amount of contexts increases. In this paper, we propose a context pre-fetching method to reduce the size of contexts to be processed in a working memory in attempt to speed up inferencing. For this, we extend the query-tree method to identify contexts relevant to the queries of a context-aware application. Maintaining the pre-fetched contexts optimal in a working memory, the processing delay of inference reduces without the loss of the benefits of ontology-based context model. We apply the proposed scheme to our ubiquitous computing middleware, Active Surroundings, and demonstrate the performance enhancement by experiments.
Keywords
ontology-based context management; enhancing inference performance;
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