Semantic service discovery in pervasive computing environment

Abstract

Semantic web services are ontologically annotated software resources that might be executed across the web. The use of ontologies facilitates service discovery, automatic execution and composition of complex services. This paper describes the preliminary results of research aiming at bringing semantic web services functionality into pervasive computing environment. The approach consists of decomposing big domain ontologies and constructing so called runtime-ontology that is tailored to the environment it is used in and allows easy and efficient computing possible service opportunities.