Ontology-Based Context Modeling

Abstract. Ontologies are a widely accepted tool for the modeling of context information. We view the identification of the benefits and challenges of ontologybased models to be an important next step to further improve the usability of ontologies in context-aware applications. We outline a set of criteria with respect to ontology engineering and context modeling and discuss some recent achievements in the area of ontology-based context modeling in order to determine the important next steps necessary to fully exploit ontologies in pervasive computing.