Knowledge Representation in Intelligent Environments

Motivation: For many years now, research in intelligent spaces has grown, exploring different ways that a room can react to one or more users and their actions. As usage of this type of environment grows, however, these spaces will by necessity collect ever-increasing amounts of data about their users, in order to adapt to the user’s desires. Information will be collected on the users’ interests, who they communicate with, their location, web pages they visit, and numerous other details that we may not even notice. All this information needs to be collected and organized, so that the environment can make quick, correct assumptions about what the user would like to do next.