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Mastering the Relevance of Subjective Information in Ubiquitous Computing

Mats Neovius, Kaisa Sere, Mastering the Relevance of Subjective Information in Ubiquitous Computing. Journal of Communications and Information Sciences (JCIS) 3(4), 27 – 44, 2013.

Abstract:

An application that relies on a ubiquitous computing environment populated by autonomous software agents is likely to be saturated by information. When this information is subjective, deciding whether the information is incorrect or evaluated by different appreciation is impossible. To address these issues, we formally define a group that bonds by similar appreciation. A group is considered a set of software agents and appreciation is derived from agents’ past experiences. The composed abstract experience of a group’s agents an inquirer associates itself with are considered the agent specific relevant information. The contribution is outlining a means to calculate with the experiences capturing their subjective relevance and the level of certainty in this as well as in describing a means to compose, customise and define abstract groups of autonomous agents. The contributions are discussed, motivated and exemplified by a subjective example.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jMaKa13a,
  title = {Mastering the Relevance of Subjective Information in Ubiquitous Computing},
  author = {Neovius, Mats and Sere, Kaisa},
  journal = {Journal of Communications and Information Sciences (JCIS)},
  volume = {3},
  number = {4},
  publisher = {AICIT},
  pages = {27 – 44},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {reputation-based trustworthiness, subjective logic, collaboration, information relevance},
}

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