PLAY: Semantics-based Event Marketplace

Abstract

In this paper we present PLAY Platform, a Web-oriented distributed semantic middleware that serves as an Event Marketplace: the place where heterogeneous events can be integrated and combined. The purpose of the platform is to derive useful information from diverse real-time sources such as collaborative processes. The platform provides technology where instant results are needed or where heterogeneous data must be integrated on the fly or where the data arrive fast enough to require the stream processing nature of our approach. The main advantages of the platforms are its scalability (cloud-based nature) and the expressivity of the event combinations that can be defined (using both real-time and historical data). The platform has been applied in a use case about Personal data management. In this paper we present some results from the validation, focusing on smartphone and social media integration. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013.