Ontology-based home service model

Abstract

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.

Hybrid user action prediction system for automated home using association rules and ontology

“…The work in [36][37][38][39] proposes an ontology-based home approach for modelling smart homes. Wei et al [36] examined a home administration recovery and invocation for a smart home for user needs. They exhibited an ontology-based home administration model to recover and invoke services and administrations as indicated by client's needs naturally.…”

An Ontology for Interoperability: Modeling of Composite Services in the Smart Home Environment

“…In the topic smart home there exist a number of research activities, which are focused on services. 1 Moji Wei et al [4] present an "Ontology Based Home Service Model". That is a model to retrieve and invoke services according to user's needs automatically.…”

Représentation et vérification d’un environnement intelligent à partir de spécifications utilisateur en langage naturel

“…En outre, de nombreux travaux insistent sur la pertinence de l'usage d'ontologies en ingénierie des exigences (Castañeda et al, 2010), pour codifier les connaissances pertinentes et faciliter la compréhension du domaine (Omoronyia et al, 2010 ;Al Balushi et al, 2013), minimiser l'ambiguïté linguistique (Castañeda et al, 2012), identifier des règles métier redondantes, jamais applicables ou qui violent le domaine de leur définition (Chniti et al, 2012), ou s'appuyer sur les connaissances d'ontologies pour aider l'analyse dans ses décisions pour améliorer des spécifications (Körner, Brumm, 2009). Enfin, l'usage d'ontologies pour la modélisation d'environnements intelligents est recommandé par divers auteurs (Xu et al, 2009 ;Wei et al, 2012 ;Bae, 2014 ;Li et al, 2014). Nous proposons donc d'étudier et d'exploiter l'apport d'une ontologie comme représentation pivot dans un processus de validation de spécifications en LN décrivant le comportement d'un environnement intelligent.…”