Apparatus and method for performing service adaptation in respect of a mobile computing device

A computer program product comprising machine-readable instructions for implementing a method for performing service adaptation in respect of a mobile computing device comprising:

• providing a service adaptation specification as a set of rules, each rule comprising a rule body containing one or more premises and a rule head containing one or more conclusions that hold if said one or more premises are true, wherein said rules are defined as classes in an ontology, said premises represent adaptation context, and said conclusions represent service adaptation decisions;
• running the rules on a Description Logics reasoner in conjunction with adaptation context relating to the mobile computing device for a requested service to produce one or more service adaptation decisions;
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• adapting the requested service provided to the mobile computing device in accordance with the service adaptation decisions from the Description Logics reasoner.

Apparatus configured to perform service adaptation in respect of a mobile computing device, said apparatus comprising:

• a set of rules comprising a service adaptation, each rule comprising a rule body containing one or more premises and a rule head containing one or more conclusions that hold if said one or more premises are true, wherein said rules are defined as classes in an ontology, said premises represent adaptation context, and said conclusions represent service adaptation decisions;
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• a Description Logics reasoner for running the rules in conjunction with adaptation context relating to the mobile computing device for a requested service to produce one or more service adaptation decisions;
• wherein the requested service provided to the mobile computing device may be adapted in accordance with the service adaptation decisions from the Description Logics reasoner.