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Use of ontologies in a pervasive computing environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2004

ANAND RANGANATHAN ,
ROBERT E McGRATH ,
ROY H CAMPBELL  and
M DENNIS MICKUNAS
ANAND RANGANATHAN
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; e-mail: ranganat@uiuc.edu, mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu, rhc@uiuc.edu, mickunas@cs.uiuc.edu
ROBERT E McGRATH
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; e-mail: ranganat@uiuc.edu, mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu, rhc@uiuc.edu, mickunas@cs.uiuc.edu
ROY H CAMPBELL
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; e-mail: ranganat@uiuc.edu, mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu, rhc@uiuc.edu, mickunas@cs.uiuc.edu
M DENNIS MICKUNAS
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA; e-mail: ranganat@uiuc.edu, mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu, rhc@uiuc.edu, mickunas@cs.uiuc.edu
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Abstract

Ontologies are entering widespread use in many areas such as knowledge and content management, electronic commerce and the Semantic Web. In this paper we show how the use of ontologies has helped us overcome some important problems in the development of pervasive computing environments. We have integrated ontologies and Semantic Web technology into our pervasive computing infrastructure. Our investigations have shown that Semantic Web technology can be integrated into our CORBA-based infrastructure to augment several important services. This work suggests a number of requirements for future research in the development of ontologies, reasoners, languages and interfaces.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 209 - 220
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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