@INPROCEEDINGS{pahl:2014noms, author={Marc-Oliver Pahl and Georg Carle}, title={Crowdsourced Context-Modeling as Key to Future Smart Spaces}, booktitle={Network Operations and Management Symposium 2014 (NOMS 2014)}, month=may, year=2014, keywords={smart space; crowdsourced; ontology; context; context modeling; collaboration; convergence}, webpdf = {http://www.pahl.de/download/publications/NOMS2014_IOT_Crowdsourced_Context-Modeling_Pahl.pdf}, abstract = {Managing smart spaces with software requires the acquisition and processing of context information about a space. To be usable for exchanging information, a context representation has to be structured with a context model. Existing context modeling techniques usually require experts and lack support for collaborative distributed creation, which prevents a crowdsourced development in a distributed collaborative way by non-experts. To facilitate context modeling, this paper presents a hybrid meta model that combines features from key-value, markup, object oriented, and ontology based context-modeling approaches. An architecture is introduced that allows the dynamic collaborative extension and crowdsourced convergence of context models.}, doi={10.1109/noms.2014.6838362}}