FleXConf: A Flexible Conference Assistant Using Context-Aware Notification Services

Nikos Armenatzoglou^1,2, Yannis Marketakis^1,2, Lito Kriara^1,2, Elias Apostolopoulos^1,2, Vicky Papavasiliou^1,2, Dimitris Kampas^1,2, Alexandros Kapravelos^1,2, Eythimis Kartsonakis^1,2, Giorgos Linardakis^1,2, Sofia Nikitaki^1,2, Antonis Bikakis^1,2, and Grigoris Antoniou^1,2

¹Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Crete, Greece
armenan@csd.uoc.gr
marketak@csd.uoc.gr
kriara@csd.uoc.gr
ilapost@csd.uoc.gr
papavas@csd.uoc.gr
kampas@csd.uoc.gr
kapravel@csd.uoc.gr
kartson@csd.uoc.gr
linard@csd.uoc.gr
nikitaki@csd.uoc.gr
bikakis@csd.uoc.gr
ga@csd.uoc.gr

²Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Greece

Abstract. Integrating context-aware notification services to ubiquitous computing systems aims at the provision of the right information to the right users, at the right time, in the right place, and on the right device, and constitutes a significant step towards the realization of the Ambient Intelligence vision. In this paper, we present FlexConf, a semantics-based system that supports location-based, personalized notification services for the assistance of conference attendees. Its special features include an ontology-based representation model, rule-based context-aware reasoning, and a novel positioning system for indoor environments.

Keywords: context awareness, location-based services, notification services, context ontology, rule-based reasoning

LNCS 5872, p. 108 ff.

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