SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications

Chen, Harry; Perich, Filip; Finin, Tim; Joshi, Anupam

doi:10.21236/ada439638

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“…Several papers have tried to propose approaches and technologies to easily model and handle dynamic context-aware applications especially for ubiquitous and pervasive computing. One of the first ontology-based approaches is SOUPA [5]. It is expressed in OWL and includes modular component vocabularies to represent intelligent agents, time, space, events, user profiles, actions, and policies for security and privacy.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Context-aware Reactive Systems based on Runtime Semantic Models (S)

Giallonardo¹,

Poggi²,

Rossi³

et al. 2019

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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IoT, smart cities, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks are context-aware, highly dynamic and reactive systems. Their implementation should take into account the heterogeneity of their components and make easy the management of events unplanned at design time. According to these requirements, in this paper we propose an ontology-based approach to provide runtime models of the physical entities characterizing context-aware reactive systems. We extend SSN, a W3C standard ontology, to support complex reactive behaviors through the modeling of Logical Sensors and Actuators (LSA ontology); we also present a software architecture in which a knowledge base, structured coherently with this semantic model, is bound to real world entities by grounding (via web services) semantic elements to physical sensors and actuators. To validate the approach we discuss a case study related to smart buildings for cultural heritage preservation.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Context-aware Reactive Systems based on Runtime Semantic Models (S)

Giallonardo¹,

Poggi²,

Rossi³

et al. 2019

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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“…Models that can capture the current state of a pervasive environment and its applications are vital components to build context-aware applications [14]. Ontologies have already been used to enable the development of pervasive applications [10,15,16]. For example, Preuveneers et al proposed an ontology to capture the context of use of ambient intelligent environments in [17].…”

Section: Conclusion Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rewiring Strategies for Changing Environments

Laurier

Vanderhulst

Poels

et al. 2010

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

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A typical pervasive application executes in a changing environment: people, computing resources, software services and network connections come and go continuously. A robust pervasive application needs adapt to this changing context as long as there is an appropriate rewiring strategy that guarantees correct behavior. We combine the MERODE modeling methodology with the ReWiRe framework for creating interactive pervasive applications that can cope with changing environments. The core of our approach is a consistent environment model, which is essential to create (re)configurable context-aware pervasive applications. We aggregate different ontologies that provide the required semantics to describe almost any target environment. We present a case study that shows a interactive pervasive application for media access that incorporates parental control on media content and can migrate between devices. The application builds upon models of the run-time environment represented as system states for dedicated rewiring strategies.

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“…Different applications have different information needs, and applications can be used in different settings. One solution is to create a general model for ubiquitous environments, eg [9]. The other is to attempt to integrate different models based on interoperation techniques, as presented in this paper.…”

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Semantic Interoperation to Support Context in Adaptive Applications

O’Connor¹,

Wade²

2008

NOMS Workshops 2008 - IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium Workshops

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The challenge of supporting Ubiquitous Computing is to assist the user by helping their applications make better decisions with better information. Smart spaces and other information sources can provide this information, but it is unrealistic to expect all the information to be represented in the same way everywhere. This means that the goal of ubiquitous computing translates into a problem of information integration. This paper presents a new knowledge-driven approach to applying contextual information to user applications. The objective of the design is to use a semantic integration, represented in topic maps, to deliver knowledge found in available services to personalise and improve the functionality of an integrated application. A brief discussion of the different semantic technologies employed in the system is followed by a presentation of the architecture of the system and its novel combination of semantic technologies. Two Use Cases are discussed, one specifically related to Ubiquitous Environments. Finally, the work is related to other research in the areas of Semantic Mediation and Context Awareness.

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SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications

Abstract: We describe a shared ontology called SOUPA -Standard

Cited by 147 publications

References 9 publications

Context-aware Reactive Systems based on Runtime Semantic Models (S)

Context-aware Reactive Systems based on Runtime Semantic Models (S)

Rewiring Strategies for Changing Environments

Semantic Interoperation to Support Context in Adaptive Applications

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