Ontological Model to Predict user Mobility

Atef Zaguia,Roobaea Alroobaea

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2019.0100253

Abstract

With the remarkable technological evolution of mobile devices, the use of computing resources has become possible at any time and independent of the geographical position of the user. This phenomenon has various names such as omnipresent diffuse computing, pervasive computing, or ubiquitous systems. This new form of computing allows users to have access to shared and ubiquitous services focused on their needs, and it is based on context prediction, especially the prediction of the user’s location. This paper aims to present a new approach for predicting a user’s next probable location, by presenting an ontological model which is based on the pattern technique. This is carried out by using an ontological model that comprises different user behaviors and presents details about the environment, where the user is located. The results after tested on real data show that the presented ontological model was able to achieve 85% future location-prediction accuracy (in the case of no similar patterns). Future work will focus on the integration of the Bayesian network to improve the results. This approach will be implemented in smart homes or smart cities to reduce energy consumption.

Highlights

Advances in technology have recently led to the emergence of more complicated computing systems
This paper proposes a new approach to predict future location of the user
This approach is based on the use of patterns modeled on an ontology with many contextual parameters considered important, such as time, weather, locomotion

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Introduction

Advances in technology have recently led to the emergence of more complicated computing systems. Small devices such as smartphones and other devices providing personal digital assistance have become part and parcel of people’s daily life. Such devices come to facilitate user’s access to information anywhere, anytime. Regardless of their geographical location, users can exchange data easier and quickly. These qualities made the newly invented devices omnipresent. The fact led to the emergence of a new trend of systems, namely, ubiquitous computing or pervasive systems

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