Contextual Argumentation in Ambient Intelligence

Antonis Bikakis, Grigoris Antoniou

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Abstract

The imperfect nature of context in Ambient Intelligence environments and the special characteristics of the entities that possess and share the available context information render contextual reasoning a very challenging task. Most current Ambient Intelligence systems have not successfully addressed these challenges, as they rely on simplifying assumptions, such as perfect knowledge of context, centralized context, and unbounded computational and communicating capabilities. This paper presents a knowledge representation model based on the Multi-Context Systems paradigm, which represents ambient agents as autonomous logic-based entities that exchange context information through mappings, and uses preference information to express their confidence in the imported knowledge. On top of this model, we have developed an argumentation framework that exploits context and preference information to resolve conflicts caused by the interaction of ambient agents through mappings, and a distributed algorithm for query evaluation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLogic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Subtitle of host publication10th International Conference, LPNMR 2009, Proceedings
EditorsEsra Erdem, Fangzhen Lin, Torsten Schaub
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Pages30-43
Number of pages14
Volume5753 LNAI/LNCS
ISBN (Electronic)9783642042386
ISBN (Print)3642042376, 9783642042379
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Sep 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning - Potsdam, Germany
Duration: 14 Sep 200918 Sep 2009
Conference number: 10

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Volume5753 LNAI/LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Abbreviated titleLPNMR 2009
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityPotsdam
Period14/09/0918/09/09

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