Investigations of Semantic Interoperability in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

R.E. McGrath, A. Ranganathan, M.D. Mickunas, and R.H. Campbell (USA)

Keywords

Object Oriented Systems, Operating Systems, UbiquitousComputing Environments, Semantic Interoperability

Abstract

In this paper, we show how the use of ontologies has helped us address some key issues facing ubiquitous computing environments; improving interoperability between entities, discovery and matchmaking, and context awareness. Ontologies establish a joint terminology between members of a community of interest and provide a basis for achieving semantic interoperability. We have integrated the use of ontologies in our Smart Spaces framework GAIA [10, 13]. We show that ontologies provide important capabilities for Ubiquitous Computing infrastructure, and context-aware computing.

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• From Proceeding (392) Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - 2003

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