A collaboration based context prediction in smart office

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ahmad, Rashid^{; *} | Kim, Do-Hyeun^{; **; ***}

Affiliations: Department of Computer Engineering, Jeju National University, 102 Jeju-si, Jeju-do, 690-756, Republic of Korea. E-mail: rashid141@gmail.com

Correspondence: [***] Corresponding author. E-mail: kimdh@jejunu.ac.kr.

Note: [*] Ph.D. Student.

Note: [**] Professor.

Abstract: Context prediction plays a vital role in an assistive ubiquitous environment. The environmental configuration in a ubiquitous environment is heavily dependent on the context of the events occurring in the environment. Current state of the art approaches utilize the user’s history information for predicting the context of the events. When the user’s history does not provide apposite contextual information for the observed activity/event at time t, the history based state of the art context prediction techniques fails to predict the appropriate future context. To overcome the gap of missing context information in the user’s context history, we propose a Profile based Collaborative Context Prediction (PCCP) approach. PCCP is a predictive association rules based system which utilizes the history of similar users and collaborate among users of the ubiquitous environment. PCCP generates rules at high level of abstraction, human readable and understandable that helps in avoiding the underline details. To evaluate the PCCP, a smart office is considered as an experimental environment. Experiments are carried out on indigenous multi user smart office data set. Our experiments showed significant level of accuracy in both environments. Due to the understandability of output and higher accuracy of PCCP, it can be extended to assist the user in a smart environment.

Keywords: Keyword context awareness, context prediction, collaboration, smart office

DOI: 10.3233/AIS-150348

Journal: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 805-815, 2015