speed up the overall software development process,
while overcoming the barriers of both data source and
external service integration, thanks to utilization of
ontologies and semantic mapping. Finally, to achieve
customization of the presented solutions for new
application, programming expertise is not a must,
thanks to adoption of no-code approach enabled by
combination of ontologies and frontend components.
7 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE
WORKS
In this paper, we introduced an approach to
semantics-aided development of industry-oriented
applications. As a proof of concept, we demonstrated
case study evaluated within a realistic usage scenario.
According to the results, the proposed solution has
proven effective in several aspects of importance for
industry-oriented applications: integration of data
from heterogeneous sources (IoT devices, ERP) as
well as execution environments (IoT devices on the
Edge and Cloud services). MFE has been proven to
speed up the whole process of application
development and deployment, while making the
software applications development learning curve
much less step, bringing it closer to domain experts
without programming experience. Finally, the
presented case study could be easily adapted for other
IoT data sources given the corresponding domain
ontology and broker connector API calls.
In future, we plan to explore the potential of
trending ChatGPT conversational agent and Large
Language Models (LLM) in order to integrate it
within our semantics-enabled framework. Our goal is
to automatize some of the ontology-related tasks,
such as automated domain ontology construction
based on textual or tabular sources; complex
SPARQL query generation with minimal or without
user intervention; automated service code generation.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research work has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation program under grant agreement No.
873087 (SHOP4CF) as one of the winners in OC2.
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