Semantic User Profiles and their Applications in a Mobile Environment

In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer based mobile environment consisting of stations providing semantic services and users with mobile devices which manage their owner’s semantic profile. In this environment the distributed computing power replaces centralized profile management. The service stations broadcast their services in a description logics based ontology language. When users equipped with their mobile device enter the range of a station, the semantic service is matched against the semantic user profile. The matching framework supports matching of services against user profiles, but is easily extended to matching services against other services or user profiles against other user profiles.