This paper researches Home Service retrieval and invocation for smart home.
We represent ontology-based Home Service Model to retrieve and invoke
services according to user?s needs automatically. Firstly by analyzing the
context of home service, we differentiate key concepts in the field and
analyze the relations among them, and as a result, an upper ontology as a
fixed viewpoint for further more detailed conceptualization is achieved. Then
by reifying the concepts of the upper ontology, we construct two domain
ontologies which are Function Concept Ontology and Context Concept Ontology
to annotate the semantic of Home Service from different facets. The Function
Concept Ontology is constructed with the guidance of Maslow's Hierarchy of
Needs to annotate the goal of service for automating service retrieval. For
service invocation, the Context Concept Ontology is constructed by analyzing
the contents that services operate. Finally two scenarios for different types
of services are given to demonstrate the usage of the model.