SoaM: A Web‐powered Architecture for Designing and Deploying Pervasive Semantic Devices

Abstract

Abstract-Despite several efforts during the last years, the web model and semantic web technologies have not yet been successfully applied to empower Ubiquitous Computing architectures in order to create knowledge-rich environments populated by interconnected smart devices. In this paper we point out some problems of these previous initiatives and introduce SoaM (Smart Objects Awareness and Adaptation Model), an architecture for designing and seamlessly deploying web-powered context-aware semantic gadgets. Implementation and evaluation details of SoaM are also provided in order to identify future research challenges.

A framework for the descriptive specification of awareness support in multimodal user interfaces for collaborative activities

“…Another interesting proposal is SoaM [36]. It proposes a distributed architecture, unlike the previous one, although it has elements in common, such as the definition of entities and agents or the use of ontologies.…”

Multimodal instantiation of assistance services

“…If we focus on semantic pervasive projects that have a communication layer based on web technologies, distributed architectures and semantic descriptions; we can build a nonexhaustive list of some interesting projects: the SOAM model [7], the Task Computing project [8], the PERSE middleware [9], the IGPF (Integrated Global Pervasive Computing Framework) [10] the Web4CE standard [11] and the Widget mobility research project [12] in the GPAC framework.…”

Model-Driven Methodology for Rapid Deployment of Smart Spaces Based on Resource-Oriented Architectures

“…Additionally, with regard to semantics, few authors have integrated ontological technologies to support model transformations or validations in Model-Driven approaches, even if there is an increasing interest on the topic. Trends that integrate ontologies with Software Engineering (e.g., Ontology Driven Software Engineering or Ontology Driven Architectures) (e.g., [ 19 ], [ 20 ] or [ 21 ]) have demonstrated how the use of ontologies can enhance the development process within Model Driven methodologies of pervasive services, although they introduce some burden coming from the required effort for the ontology definition and its management.…”