UbisWorld is a playground that can be used to represent parts of the real world like an office, a shop, a museum, an airport or a city. It represents persons, objects, locations as well as times, events and their properties and features. UbisWorld could be understood as a virtual coloured blocks world where each colour represents a different category in the ontology. The main focus of this approach lays on research issues of ubiquitous computing and user modeling. Apart from the representational funtionality, UbisWorld can be used for simulation, inspection and control of the real world. The T-Boxes and the A-Boxes of the world model are saved in databases. However, the knowledge is dynamically transferred to the semantic web languages RDF and OWL.
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under construction
The different parts of the ontology are represented as foldable trees, that should be considered as beeing a special representation of a semantic net, with concepts (or classes) and typed instances. Multiple inheritance is realized by node copying. The parent-child connections either imply the 'concept subsumtion' relation or the 'ISA' relation.
Physical objects like persons, devices, furniture but also systems and categories like film genres or environmental topics are presented in this basic ontology.
open [ Aibo | Fluidum Toolset | Smartshelf | ALL ] close [ ALL ]
The spatial ontology contains classes, predicates and intances of the spatial domain. Further information has to follow.
open [ Edinburgh | Building 36 | hasInclusion-Saarland | ALL ] close [ ALL ]
The temporal ontology contains classes, predicates and intances of the temporal domain. Further information has to follow.
open [ Decade | regularly | Afternoon | ALL ] close [ ALL ]
GUMO, the General User Model and Context Ontology tries to cover all classes, predicates and instances concerning the situational states and models of the users, the system/devices and the environments. This ontology is based on tutorials from Anthony Jameson and Jon Oberlander.
open [ Personality | Happiness | Timepressure | ALL ] close [ ALL ]
Events, Interactions, Ubicomp Scenarios, Inferences and UserAdaptive Systems should be described in this Ontology. This chapter is heavily under construction.
open [ Move-to-Location | Canoe Tour 2003 | Shelf-In | ALL ] close [ ALL ]
Ubicomp Scenarios, Inferences and UserAdaptive Systems should be described in this Ontology. This chapter is under construction.
open [ ShoppingScenario | Meeting | RemindMeThere | ALL ] close [ ALL ]
The knowledge about concepts, individuals and relations in UbisWorld is modeled in two ontologies: GUMO, the General User Model Ontology and UbisOntology, the ontology for ubiquitous computing. These ontologies are under online developement and are dynamically generated for a variety of representations to serve semantic web and database applications.
Physical 
Spatial 
Temporal 
Situational 
Actional 
Inferencial