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URL: http://pervasive.semanticweb.org/doc/2004-01-ont-guide/part1/
In
a pervasive computing environment, computer systems often need to access the
profiles and the preferences of a user in order to provide services and
information that are tailored to the user. The profile of a user includes
typical contact information (telephone numbers, email addresses, name, etc.)
and information that describe other computing entities that can act on the
behalf of the user (e.g., the personal agent of a user). The preference of a
user is a description of the environment state that the user desires the
computer systems to honor or achieve whenever it is possible.
The
purpose of this document is to show how to describe the profile and the
preferences of a user using the PERVASIVE-SO ontologies, which are defined
using the Web Ontology Language OWL. Readers are assumed to be familiar with
the OWL language and its associated terminologies. For details on the OWL
language, readers can consult the listed documents in the References section.
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