A Context Quality Model to Support Transparent Reasoning with Uncertain Context
Susan McKeever20
, Juan Ye20, Lorcan Coyle20 and Simon Dobson20
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System Research Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, UCD, Dublin, Ireland |
Abstract
Much research on context quality in context-aware systems divides into two strands: (1) the qualitative identification of
quality measures and (2) the use of uncertain reasoning techniques. In this paper, we combine these two strands, exploring
the problem of how to identify and propagate quality through the different context layers in order to support the context
reasoning process. We present a generalised, structured context quality model that supports aggregation of quality from sensor
up to situation level. Our model supports reasoning processes that explicitly aggregate context quality, by enabling the identification
and quantification of appropriate quality parameters. We demonstrate the efficacy of our model using an experimental sensor
data set, gaining a significant improvement in situation recognition for our voting based reasoning algorithm.
This work is partially supported by Enterprise Ireland under grant number CFTD 2005 INF 217a, and by Science Foundation Ireland
under grant numbers 07/CE/I1147 and 04/RPI/1544.
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