Harry Chen

Issues in Data Management for Pervasive Environments (2007)

Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment in which agents with limited resources will require external support to help them become context-aware. In this paper, we describe an...

Sasikanth Avancha, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Harry Chen, Lalana Kagal, Filip Perich, Timothy Finin, ...

A new vista is open for research in the area of data management in pervasive environments where mobile devices gather and exchange information from other devices based on their current context. Each...

TAGA: Using Semantic Web Technologies in Multi-Agent Systems (2007)

Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen

Abstract. Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is a framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multi agent environment based...

The Role of the Semantic Web in Pervasive Context-Aware Systems ⋆ (2007)

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Abstract. This paper describes an ontology expressed in OWL for supporting agent based context-aware systems in a pervasive computing environment. Defining an explicit representation of the ontology...

Information agents for mobile and embedded devices (2007)

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Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Olga Ratsimore, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen

Abstract. The pervasive computing environments of the near future will involve the interactions, coordination and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices....

Agents making sense of the Semantic Web (2007)

Lalana Kagal, Filip Perich, Harry Chen, Sovrin Tolia, Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, ...

Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of available information and services on the Internet will require multi-agent systems to be tightly integrated with existing web infrastructure. This...

Information agents for mobile and embedded devices (2007)

Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Olga Ratsimore, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen

Abstract. The pervasive computing environments of the near future will involve the interactions, coordination and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices....

An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment (2007)

Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, R. Scott Cost

A great deal of research and development effort has been undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application software systems so...

An Agent System for Application Initialization in an (2007)

Integrated Manufacturing Environment, Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, ...

A great deal of research and development effort has been undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application software systems so...

The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing (2005)

Semantic Web in the Context Broker Architecture (2004)

Abstract. This paper describes SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications) and the use of this ontology in building the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA). CoBrA is a new...

SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications (2004)

This document describes a new architecture that exploits Semantic Web technologies for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. This architecture called Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) differs...

Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi

We describe a shared ontology called SOUPA -- Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications. SOUPA is designed to model and support pervasive computing applications. This ontology is...

Intelligent agents meet semantic web in a smart meeting room (2004)

Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi

We describe a new smart meeting room system called EasyMeeting that explores the use of FIPA agent technologies, Semantic Web ontologies, logic reasoning, and security and privacy policies. Building...

A Pervasive Computing Ontology for User Privacy Protection in the Context Broker Architecture (2004)

Harry Chen, Harry Chen, Tim Finin, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Anupam Joshi

Abstract. Privacy protection is a key requirement for the future pervasive computing systems. This paper describes the design and implementation of a privacy protection framework that exploits the...

An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems (2003)

An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Context-Aware Systems (2003)

We describe Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) – a new architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces. Our architecture explores the use of Semantic Web languages for defining...

An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)

Context-aware computing is an emerging paradigm to free everyday users from manually configuring and instructing computer systems. As the general trend of computing is progressing towards an open and...

Semantic Web in a Pervasive Context-Aware Architecture (2003)

Ontologies are a key component for building open and dynamic distributed pervasive computing systems in which agents and devices share contextual information. We describe our use of the Web Ontology...

Harry Chen Baltimore, Harry Chen

This document describes a new approach that explores the use of Semantic Web languages in building an architecture for supporting context-aware systems. This new architecture called Context Broker...

An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems (2003)

Harry Chen Baltimore, Harry Chen

We describe Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) -- a new architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces. Our architecture explores the use of Semantic Web languages for defining...

An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)

Using semantic web technology in multi-agent systems: a case study in the TAGA trading agent environment (2003)

This document describes COBRA-ONT an ontology for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. COBRA-ONT, expressed in the Web Ontology Language OWL, is a collection of ontologies for describing...

Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, Li Ding, Harry Chen, Rong Pan

Travel Agent Game in Agentcities (TAGA) is the framework that extends and enhances the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) scenario to work in Agentcities, an open multi agent environment based on FIPA...

An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)

Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)

This document describes COBRA-ONT an ontology for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. COBRA-ONT, expressed in the Web Ontology Language OWL, is a collection of ontologies for describing...

R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Harry Chen, ...

Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “semantic web” markup languages such as the DARPA Agents Markup Language (DAML). Such languages...

Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing. In Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices at the (2002)

Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)

Agent teamwork has been widely studied in the fields of Distributed AI. Much success has been achieved in defining theory to explain how agents should act together as a team and in developing...

R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...

Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...

Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)

R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...

Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...

Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)

R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...

Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...

Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)

R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...

Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...

Ittalks: A case study in the semantic web and daml (2002)

R. Scott Cost, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Yun Peng, Charles Nicholas, Ian Soboroff, ...

Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of "Semantic Web " markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language...

Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing. In Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices at the (2002)

Centaurus: A Framework for Intelligent Services in a Mobile Environment (2001)

Agent teamwork has been widely studied in the fields of Distributed AI. Much success has been achieved in defining agent teamwork theory to explain how agents should act together as a team and in...

Lalana Kagal, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin

In an age where wirelessly networked appliances and devices are becoming commonplace, there is a necessity for connecting them to work together for a mobile user. The design outlined in this paper...

Centaurus: A Framework for Intelligent Services in a Mobile Environment (2001)

Lalana Kagal, Vlad Korolev, Harry Chen, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin

In an age where wirelessly networked appliances and devices are becoming commonplace, there is a necessity for connecting them to work together for a mobile user. The design outlined in this paper...

Dynamic service discovery for mobile computing: Intelligent agents meet Jini in the aether (2001)

Harry Chen, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin

The emergence of ad-hoc pervasive connectivity for devices based on Bluetooth-like systems provides a new way to create applications for mobile systems. We propose to realize ubiquitous computing...

ITTALKS: An application of agents in the semantic web (2001)

Filip Perich, Lalana Kagal, Harry Chen, Sovrin Tolia, Youyong Zou, Tim Finin, ...

Abstract. Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of “Semantic Web ” markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such...

Service discovery in the future electronic market (2000)

Harry Chen, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Liang Xu, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin

The trend the electronic market is taking, aided by the concommitant development of mobile devices suggest a major change from the way electronic commerce is done today. The increased use of PDAs,...

Service discovery in the future electronic market (2000)

Harry Chen, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Liang Xu, Anupam Joshi, Tim Finin

The trend the electronic market is taking, aided by the concommitant development of mobile devices suggest a major change from the way electronic commerce is done today. The increased use of PDAs,...

An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment (1999)

Yun Peng, Tim Finin, Harry Chen, Ling Wang, Yannis Labrou, Scott Cost, ...

A great deal of research and development effort has been undertaken in recent years to integrate otherwise disconnected manufacturing production and planning (P/E) application software systems so...

A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms (1998)

Semantic Web in the Context Broker Architecture (1998)

Building smart meeting rooms requires the support of a computing system architecture. In this paper, we describe the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA), a broker-centric agent architecture for...

Chen, Harry, Finin, Tim, Joshi, Amupam

This document describes a new architecture that exploits Semantic Web technologies for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. This architecture called Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) differs...

Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker (1998)

ITTALKS: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML (1998)

Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment in which agents with limited resources will require external support to help them become context-aware. In this paper, we describe an...

Cost, R. S., Finin, Tim, Joshi, Anupam, Peng, Yun, Nicholas, Charles, Soboroff, Ian, ...

Effective use of the vast quantity of information now available on the web will require the use of Semantic Web markup languages such as the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML). Such languages will...

An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments (1998)

SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications (1998)

This document describes COBRA-ONT an ontology for supporting pervasive context-aware systems. COBRA-ONT, expressed in the Web Ontology Language OWL, is a collection of ontologies for describing...

Chen, Harry, Perich, Filip, Finin, Tim, Joshi, Anupam

We describe a shared ontology called SOUPA Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications. SOUPA is designed to model and support pervasive computing applications. This ontology is...

Semantic Web in a Pervasive Context-Aware Architecture (1998)