UNIK9710 – Selected topics in mobile semantic service delivery
Course description
Course content
The course links the mobile and Internet service world together with user preferences and context information.
Example 1: The way mobile advertisements are being received by you depend very much on your situation and your interest. “If you are running to the train to catch it, you don't want to be disturbed by anything else than the message that the train is delayed”.
Example 2: Building communities in mind is independent of physical locations. “It's more fun to watch TV together. Let's enable chat and talk with all my friends watching the same TV channel as me.”
Learning outcome
- Collect publications for personalised service and context-aware services.
- Identify the key-features of personalised and context-aware services
- Tabulate the requirements for such services
- Describe the difference between an Internet service, a mobile service and a proximity service
- Present specific knowledge based on collected publications
- Identify semantic technologies for description of the user and his context
- Describe the difference between ontologies and rules
- Establish interworking of ontologies created by members of the course
- Construct rules to define the context of the user
- Apply rules on top of ontologies to enhance knowledge
- Produce examples of context-aware services
- Evaluate the functionality of context-aware service examples
Admission
PhD candidates from the University of Oslo should apply for classes and register for examinations through Studentweb.
If a course has limited intake capacity, priority will be given to PhD candidates who follow an individual education plan where this particular course is included. Some national researchers’ schools may have specific rules for ranking applicants for courses with limited intake capacity.
PhD candidates who have been admitted to another higher education institution must apply for a position as a visiting student within a given deadline.
Prerequisites
Formal prerequisite knowledge
No obligatory prerequisites beyond the minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway.
Overlapping courses
10 credits overlap with UNIK4710 – Selected topics in mobile semantic service delivery (discontinued)
Teaching
Seminar based on student presentations, and programming sessions.
Examination
Presentation of research topic (mandatory), home work on comparison of selected topics (60 %) and simulation work (40 %). The student may ask for an oral exam in which case the home work on comparison of selected topics counts 50%, the simulation work 30% and the oral exam 20%.
In addition, PhD candidates will be required to submit an essay and/or give a presentation to the rest of the group on a curriculum-related topic. The essay/presentation must be passed before the final exam.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.
Explanations and appeals
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
Special examination arrangements
Application form, deadline and requirements for special examination arrangements.