A standard ontology for smart spaces. (13th September 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abdulrazak, Bessam; Chikhaoui, Belkacem; Gouin-Vallerand, Charles; Fraikin, Benoit
• Is Part Of: International journal of web and grid services. Volume 6:Number 3(2010)
• Page Start: 244
• Page End: 268
• Publication Date: 2010-09-13
• Subjects: ontology -- smart environments -- ubiquitous computing -- pervasive computing -- semantic web -- smart spaces -- referentiality -- environmental change -- self-organising middleware; Web services -- Periodicals; Computational grids (Computer systems) -- Periodicals; 006.78
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-1106

Abstract

This paper presents a universal ontology for smart environments aiming to overcome the limitations of the existing ontologies. We enrich our ontology by adding new environmental aspects such as the referentiality and environmental change, that can be used to describe domains as well as applications. We show through a case study how our ontology is used and integrated in a self-organising middleware for smart environments.