Framework for NFC-Based Intelligent Agents: A Context-Awareness Enabler for Social Internet of Things. (11th February 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Chih-Hao; Ho, Pin-Han; Lin, Hong-Chuan
• Other Names: Chien Hung-Yu Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: International journal of distributed sensor networks. (2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-02-11
• Subjects: Sensor networks -- Periodicals; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals; Multisensor data fusion -- Periodicals; 681.2
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/978951
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1550-1329

Abstract

Abstract : Context-aware applications are required to be aware of user context and ambient intelligent to support nonintrusive human-computer interaction. However, the uncertain real-world environments make it difficult for a system to perceive enough environmental contexts and achieve user's goal. Therefore, this study proposes a framework for developing an NFC-enabled intelligent agent, which combines the NFC technique with context-acquisition, ontology-knowledgebase, and semantic-adaptation modules to be aware of location, time, device, and activity contexts with respect to personal and social profiles. To cope with the uncertain environment, a credit-based incentive scheme is also proposed to encourage social cooperation and thereby enlarge the value of personal perceptions. By developing a complete ontology knowledgebase, the proposed framework can incorporate with social-cooperation schemes to recommend relevant services for supporting reactive action, proactive achievement, and social cooperation. The resultant social-advertising system shows that this framework can support a wide-range of different functionalities and is indispensable to an NFC-based intelligent agent for social Internet of things.