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In our previous work, we have described the COMPASS location system that uses multiple information sources to determine the current position of a node. The raw output of this process is a location in geo-coordinates, which is not suitable for many applications. In this paper we present an extension to COMPASS, the so called Translator, that can provide facts about the location like city name, address, room number, etc. to the application. These facts are represented in the Semantic Web RDF/XML language and stored on distributed Geo RDF Servers. The main focus of this paper is a location-based service discovery mechanism which allows a node to find all services that can provide facts about its current location. This discovery service is built upon a structured Peer-to-Peer system implementing a distributed hash table.
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Kargl, F., Dannhäuser, G., Schlott, S., Nagler-Ihlein, J. (2006). Semantic Information Retrieval in the COMPASS Location System. In: Youn, H.Y., Kim, M., Morikawa, H. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing Systems. UCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4239. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11890348_11
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