Mobile Ontology: Towards a Standardized Semantic Model for the Mobile Domain

Abstract

Ontologies will be crucial for the future development of Next Generation Service Delivery Platforms. While various projects have defined ontologies for the mobile domain, there is yet little agreement on a common semantic model. One reason is the intrinsically hard problem of finding, using, mapping and evolving already existing ontologies. In this paper we present the Mobile Ontology, an effort within the IST project SPICE to converge towards a standardized ontology. Our approach is based on a minimal core ontology that defines common concepts for sub-ontologies of relevant domains and that is easily extensible towards existing and future ontologies. It is our intention to make this ontology available to other projects and collaboratively work on standardized ontology for the mobile domain.

Mobile Cloud Contextual Awareness with the Cloud Personal Assistant

“…The basis of the context representation as Ontologies in our middleware is based on the SPICE mobile ontology [5]. This Ontology has been used in several projects and is already well developed to model and represent many contexts associated with mobile devices and users.…”

“…In terms of context representation and modelling, we use the SPICE mobile ontology in this paper by Villalonga et al [5]. This is a standardised Ontology, which can be used to represent elements of mobile context.…”

Service Composition Quality Evaluation in SPICE Platform

“…Service developer with SPICE SCE can use such additional information to compose a new service made up of an orchestration of different services, typically running in different service providers' domains. In SPICE platform each service is described by means of the SPATEL language which allows enriching service interface with semantic annotations and nonfunctional properties which represents instances of concepts defined in a common ontology defined in the SPICE project [7]. Indeed, without a shared understanding (both of semantics and syntax) between applications, the communication is not feasible, or it has to be obtained with manual integration.…”

“…The framework offers an outline of the type of non-functional properties that are required: error rate, network quality of service, reliability, robustness, scalability, security, transactions and trust. In SPICE many features and concepts of telecom domain has been described which may partially overlap the WSMO: more details on SPICE ontology are available in [7]. The non-functional categories below are the one considered in SPICE, among all those defined in the ontology:…”

Telecommunications Service Domain Ontology: Semantic Interoperation Foundation of Intelligent Integrated Services

“…Some related work has been done mainly in applying ontology technology to the mobile service domain. Based on the need for a standardized ontology that describes semantic models of the domains relevant for scalable NGN (Next Generation Network) service delivery platforms, the (Villalonga et al, 2009;Su et al, 2009) provide an overview of Mobile Ontology which comprises a core ontology and several subontologies, and its application examples in the service delivery platform. This work, as a part of IST SPICE project (IST SPICE project, 2008), is a meaningful attempt to establish a standardized ontology for mobile service delivery in NGN.…”