Using a software process for ontology-based context-aware computing

Abstract

While research in context-aware computing has produced useful results, few software engineering solutions for context-aware computing have been reported. Building upon concepts of the Semantic Web, the POCAp software process is an alternative towards supporting the development of ontology-based context-aware applications. In order to demonstrate the use of POCAp, we present a case study of a Web-based recommender system extended with an OWL-based context model and a semantic-enabled software infrastructure. Using POCAp, developers can take advantage of the organization and the dependence between POCAp activities, mainly from those intended to the application's context model as well as the services for processing that model.