A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SMART PUBLIC ALERTS AND NOTIFICATIONS

Disclosed is a method and system for dynamically generating a customized, personalized and contextual alert for a user based upon personalized, contextual and background knowledge associated with the profile of the user. The system comprises a profile updater module configured to update the profile data of the user extracted either from the social web or from the user. Further, a reasoning module is configured to derive refined background knowledge in context with the updated profile data of the user. A monitoring module is configured to monitor the events sensed by a sensing module. A context extractor module is configured for extracting the context of the events and the context of the user. A knowledge converter module is configured to convert the extracted context into structured format. Finally, the refined background knowledge is steam reasoned to determine whether the events received are relevant to the user and accordingly transmitted.