Modelling Capabilities as Attribute-Featured Entities

Organizing Capabilities Using Formal Concept Analysis

“…The second family of related efforts concerns semantic annotations of invocation interfaces (SA-WSDL 5 and SA-REST 6 ). While these approaches do not directly target capability modeling, they attempt to provide alternative solutions to top-down semantic approaches (WSMO 3 and OWL-S 4 ) by starting from existing descriptions such as WSDL 7 and annotate them with semantic information.…”

“…In our work, we adopt this approach of modeling any structured entity by a set of attributes and apply it in modeling capabilities [6]. For example, if we intend to model a sensor capability we need to describe its functional properties such as what that sensor does, whether or not the sensor has a digital display, etc.…”

“…In previous work [6], we presented in details our conceptual model for capability description. In this paper, we propose an indexing structure that organizes and facilitates the efficient discovery of capabilities modeled according to [6] in a particular repository.…”

“…In this paper, we propose an indexing structure that organizes and facilitates the efficient discovery of capabilities modeled according to [6] in a particular repository. To this end, we propose an approach based on Formal Concept Analysis.…”

“…We use this concept to model sensor capabilities as a set of domain specific properties. These properties include an action verb and a set of attributes that are defined in a domain related ontology providing the possible values each attribute can have [6]. As a solution for organizing capabilities, we propose to use Formal Concept Analysis (FCA).…”