Semantic Interoperability Architecture for Smart Spaces

Semantic interoperability architecture for electronic government

Semantic Interoperability is arguably the least developed aspect of Government Interoperability Frameworks. This could be explained by poor understanding of the semantic interoperability problem in government, considering its substance and scope, difficulties encountered in aligning technical solutions with the practice of government organizations, and the paucity of mature semantic technologie...

Extending Semantic Web Tools for Improving Smart Spaces Interoperability and Usability

This paper explores the main challenges to be tackled for more accessible, and easy to use, Smart Spaces. We propose to use Semantic Web principles of interoperability and flexibility to build an end-user graphical model for rapid prototyping of Smart Spaces applications. This approach is implemented as a visual rule-based system that can be mapped into SPARQL queries. In addition, we add suppo...

Semantic Location Based Services for Smart Spaces

Enhancing the physical environment of users with IT and communication elements is one of the main objectives of the pervasive computing paradigm. The so-called “smart spaces”, which are typical pervasive computing environments, combine computing infrastructure with intelligent and context-aware services in order to advance the users’ computing experience. In this paper we describe the basic met...

Context-Awareness Micro-architecture for Smart Spaces

Semantic Space: A Semantic Web-Based Infrastructure for Smart Spaces

Semantic Space is a pervasive computing infrastructure that exploits the use of Semantic Web technologies to support explicit representation, expressive querying and flexible reasoning of contexts in smart spaces.