Framework for NFC-Based Intelligent Agents: A Context-Awareness Enabler for Social Internet of Things

Abstract

Context-aware applications are required to be aware of user context and ambient intelligent to support nonintrusive humancomputer interaction. However, the uncertain real-world environments make it difficult for a system to perceive enough environmental contexts and achieve user's goal. Therefore, this study proposes a framework for developing an NFC-enabled intelligent agent, which combines the NFC technique with context-acquisition, ontology-knowledgebase, and semantic-adaptation modules to be aware of location, time, device, and activity contexts with respect to personal and social profiles. To cope with the uncertain environment, a credit-based incentive scheme is also proposed to encourage social cooperation and thereby enlarge the value of personal perceptions. By developing a complete ontology knowledgebase, the proposed framework can incorporate with social-cooperation schemes to recommend relevant services for supporting reactive action, proactive achievement, and social cooperation. The resultant social-advertising system shows that this framework can support a wide-range of different functionalities and is indispensable to an NFC-based intelligent agent for social Internet of things.

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“…Examining the framework for development of NFC intelligence that combines NFC with traditional contextual data gathering techniques, they propose a framework based on developing a complete ontology knowledgebase. This shows the need for awareness of context in a smart home, and a possible framework for this [11].…”

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“…In addition, to bring the proposed concept into being, the authors include mechanisms for objects to take advantage of Cloud Computing 71 in order to provide them with greater computing and storage capacity, 63 which are limited resources in the majority of current IoT objects. Similarly, Lin et al 30 proposes the development of an intelligent agent model with the capacity to carry out communication through nearfield communication (NFC), which combines personal and social profiles from which it recommends relevant services that support reactive action, proactive achievement, and social cooperation-relevant aspects to the approach called the Social Internet of Things (SIoT). 72 Finally, Ayala et al 62 propose embedding agents in heterogeneous IoT objects with the aim that these agents manage IoT resources in order to provide the appropriate services requested within IoT ecosystems.…”

Context-Awareness and Mobile HCI: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities

“…Furthermore, sensed context can be split into three types, that is physical, virtual and logical sensors [23]. Higher level of context are abstract and usually inferred by fusing multiple lower level contexts [6,7,8,9,10].…”

“…Since the term "context-aware" was first proposed to describe the computing ability "of a mobile user's applications to discover and react to changes in the environment to discover and react to changes in the environment they are situated in" [1], it has received extensive scholarly attention across the fields of ubiquitous (or distributed and pervasive) computing, ambient intelligence, artificial intelligence, internet of things and user interface [2,3,4,5,6,7]. More recently, due to advances in computing capabilities and sensor technologies, the concept of context-awareness has also found its way into a diversity of industrial applications like healthcare, mobile advertising, mobile learning, museum and tour guides, recommender system and virtual reality [8,9,10].…”