“Context Information for Knowledge Reshaping” Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo A. Curino, Elisa Quintarelli, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca, accepted to Journal of Web Engineering and Technology Topic on “Web-based Knowledge Representation and Management”
ABSTRACT:
More and more often we face the necessity of extracting appropri-
ately reshaped knowledge from an integrated representation of the information
space. Be such global representation a central database, a global view of sev-
eral ones, or an ontological representation of an information domain, we face
the need of defining personalized views for the knowledge stakeholders: single
users, companies or applications. We propose to exploit the information usage
context within a methodology for context-aware data design, where the notion
of context is formally defined, together with its role within the process of view
building by information tailoring. This paper presents our context model, called
Context Dimension Tree, which plays a fundamental role in tailoring the infor-
mation space according to the user information needs.