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On the practicalities of place-based virtual communities: ontology-based querying, application architecture, and performance
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posted on 2014-05-01, 00:00 authored by T Nguyen, Seng LokeSeng Loke, T Torabi, H LuWhile the Internet has allowed geographical boundaries to be transcended, with the increasing use of the mobile Internet, there is a shift towards a focus on locality and place-specific applications. This paper proposes a novel approach for constructing context-aware mobile services for a place using a commonly shared knowledge base, that captures not only static but dynamic aspects of a place. The approach is based on a conceptual model of a Place-Based Virtual Community (PBVC), represented using an ontology; a PBVC for a place augments the place with context-aware services based on querying an ontology. We present an implementation of a framework based on the ontology and an evaluation of the performance of queries over the ontology. We also illustrate architectures of specific applications as specialisation of a generic PlaceComm architecture.
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Expert systems with applicationsVolume
41Issue
6Pagination
2859 - 2873Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
ISSN
0957-4174Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2013, ElsevierUsage metrics
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Place-based virtual communitiesPlace ontologiesMobile servicesKnowledge-based servicesScience & TechnologyTechnologyComputer Science, Artificial IntelligenceEngineering, Electrical & ElectronicOperations Research & Management ScienceComputer ScienceEngineeringInformation SystemsDistributed Computing
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