Buildings are the largest energy consumers in Europe and responsible for approximately 40% of EU consumption 36% greenhouse gas emissions Europe. Two-thirds building is residential buildings. To achieve efficiency, buildings being integrated with IoT devices through use smart services. For instance, a space heating service reduces by dynamically apartments based on indoor outdoor temperatures. ...

Entailment, as defined by RDF’s model-theoretical semantics, is a basic requirement for processing RDF, and represents the kind of “semantic interoperability” that RDF-based systems have been anticipated to have to realize the vision of the “Semantic Web”. In this paper we give some results in our investigation of a practical implementation of the entailment rules, based on the graph-walking qu...

The interoperability among a variety of systems, in or across manufacturing enterprises, has been widely accepted as one of the important factors that affects the efficiency of production. The aim of this study is to deal with the semantic interoperability issues in a product lifecycle management environment. Through the investigation of related works, the need for the formalization of semantic...

In this paper we present a conceptual model for understanding of semantic and pragmatic interoperability. We use the model to identify and classify the possible semantic interoperability problems.

One of the main characteristics of biodiversity data is its cross-disciplinary feature and the extremely broad range of data types, structures, and semantic concepts which encompasses. Moreover, biodiversity data, especially in the marine domain, is widely distributed, with few well-established repositories or standard protocols for their archiving, access, and retrieval. Our research aims at p...

Semantic interoperability is the faculty of interpreting knowledge imported from other languages at the semantic level, i.e. to ascribe to each imported piece of knowledge the correct interpretation or set of models. It is a very important requirement for delivering a worldwide semantic web. This paper presents preliminary investigations towards developing a unified view of the problem. It prop...

Using Semantic Web technologies in complex scenarios requires that such technologies correctly interoperate by interchanging ontologies using the RDF(S) and OWL languages. This interoperability is not straightforward because of the high heterogeneity in Semantic Web technologies and, while the number of such technologies grows, affordable mechanisms for evaluating Semantic Web technology intero...

Nowadays many collaborative organizations require advanced semantic interoperability tools to enable cooperation and communication across distributed Web Information Systems (WIS). Adopting the service oriented technology, they have improved interoperability at the application level by using services for WIS functionalities provisioning. Furthermore, in order to support effective peer-to-peer c...

The adoption of standards to improve interoperability in the automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding and other sectors could save billions. While interoperability standards have been created for a number of industries, problems persist, suggesting a lack of quality of the standards themselves. The issue of semantic standard quality is not often addressed. In this research we take a closer look at t...