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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Volume 6, Issue 2, Summer 2007, Pages 146-158
Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2005) - IT and Value Creation
 
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A study of context inference for Web-based information systems

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Sangjun Kima, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Euiho Suhb, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Keedong Yooc, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aEntrue Consulting Partners, LG CNS, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea

bDepartment of Industrial and Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea

cDivision of Management Information Systems, School of Economics and Commerce, Dankook University, Republic of Korea


Available online 21 December 2006.

Abstract

Recently, context-awareness has been a hot topic in the ubiquitous computing field. Numerous methods for capturing, representing and inferring context have been developed and relevant projects have been performed. Existing research has tried to determine user’s contextual information physically by using stereo type cameras, RFID, smart devices, etc. These are heavily focusing on external context such as location, temperature, light, etc. However, cognitive elements of the context are important and need more study. This paper confines its research domain to the Web-based information system (IS) and, first, proposes two algorithms, the context inference algorithm and the service recommendation algorithm, for inferring cognitive context in the IS domain. Second, this paper demonstrates cognitive context-awareness on the Web-based information systems through implementing prototype deploying the proposed algorithms. The proposed system deploying the context inference and service recommendation algorithm can help the IS user to work with an IS conveniently and enable an existing IS to deliver ubiquitous service. In this fashion, we show the direction of existing IS and, ultimately, shows the typical services of a ubiquitous computing-based IS.

Keywords: Context inference; Cognitive context; Information systems; Support vector machine; Topic identification

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Literature review
2.1. Existing context-aware applications
2.2. Cognitive context-awareness
2.3. Information systems deploying the ubiquitous computing technology
3. Prerequisites for context inference
4. Context inference and service recommendation
4.1. Representative extraction
4.2. Context inference algorithm
4.3. Service recommendation algorithm
5. Prototype implementation
5.1. Prototype overview
5.2. Prototype specification
5.3. Validation
6. Conclusion
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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Volume 6, Issue 2, Summer 2007, Pages 146-158
Ninth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2005) - IT and Value Creation
 
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