@inproceedings { Clear2006Integra, title = {Integrating Multiple Contexts and Ontologies in a Pervasive Computing Framework}, journal = {Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications}, editor = {Pavel Shvaiko and Jérôme Euzenat and Alain Léger and Deborah L. McGuinness and Holger Wache}, volume = {210}, year = {2006}, month = {28/08/2006}, pages = {20-25}, publisher = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings}, organization = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings}, type = {inproceedings}, address = {Riva Del Garda, Italy}, abstract = {There is a commonly accepted need for contexts and ontologies to describe the vast amounts of data that are available to pervasive computing applications. Existing contexts and ontologies are either much generalised, very application specific, or inflexible. An integrated approach is required in which new concepts can be added and related to existing ones transparently. This paper describes a novel approach to the design of a set of contexts and ontologies for context-aware pervasive computing systems. It describes a Query Service, that lies between applications and contextual information, which complemented by the contexts and ontologies, offers a more powerful query answering service to application developers than is currently available.}, keywords = {context, ontology, construct, pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing}, author = {Adrian K. Clear and Stephen Knox and Juan Ye and Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon} }