Ontology-Based Information Tailoring

Abstract

Current applications are often forced to filter the richness of datasources in order to reduce the information noise the user is subject to. We consider this aspect as a critical issue of applications, to be factorized at the data management level. The Context-ADDICT system, leveraging on ontology-based context and domain models, is able to personalize the data to be made available to the user by "context-aware tailoring". In this paper we present a formal approach to the definition of the relationship between context (represented by an appropriate context model) and application domain (modeled by a domain ontology). Once such relationship has been defined, we are able to work out the boundary of the portion of the domain relevant to a user in a certain context. We also sketch the implementation of a visual tool supporting the application designer in this modeling task