Ontology recomposition

Abstract

Electronic devices provide many different kinds of simple services. Most of them is able to interoperate with each other. In order to provide sufficient quality of service discovery and composition, ontologies that are used to describe services should contain many concepts and relations, which makes them big and thus unsuitable to be processed mobile devices. To fully exploit the power of a service-oriented approach in a pervasive computing environment, a technique of runtime ontology recomposition is proposed. Service descriptions created from a common ontology are composed into a runtime version of the ontology. This runtime ontology is then used to resolve service queries instead of the original one. The descriptions' semantic richness influences the quality of service discovery and composition. In order to assess their most favourable richness the original ontology is used. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.