Authors:
Jarmo Kalaoja
1
;
Julia Kantorovitch
1
;
Sara Carro
2
;
José María Miranda
2
;
Álvaro Ramos
2
and
Jorge Parra
3
Affiliations:
1
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finlands, Finland
;
2
Telefónica I+D, Spain
;
3
Ikerlan Technological Research Centre, Spain
Keyword(s):
Home networked services, service discovery, semantic modelling, requirements analysis, ontology engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
With great advance in information technology and broadband networks, the interconnected networked home devices are becoming increasingly popular. Number of heterogeneous networked devices and services which belong to the traditionally separated functional islands such as PC (i.e. Internet), mobile, CE broadcasting, and home automation, not working together can be found in our today’s home. Merging of these devices and services would offer home individual residents user-friendly, intelligent, and meaningful interfaces to handle home information and services. The semantic ontology based modelling of home services can enable interoperability of heterogeneous services. The ontology may facilitate clear description on how far each device is suitable for different kinds of information and different interaction demands. This paper is presenting an analysis on the kind of vocabulary ontologies necessary in different functional domains to cope with heterogeneity of service descriptions. The o
ntology based rich representation of services will facilitate an efficient service discovery, integration and composition.
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