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A semantic service discovery approach for ubiquitous computing

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Services in the ubiquitous computing are heterogeneous in nature. To be pervasive, these services should be defined in terms of their functionality and capabilities rather than the meaningless Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUIDs) or types of services. With that, clients can access the proper service based on semantic requests, rather then a pre-configured profile. In this paper, we study the requirements for semantic query to be feasible in service discovery processes. Current discovery protocols and the concept of semantics are brought together to construct a framework to realize the semantic service discovery for ubiquitous computing. Many issues are discussed in relation to service discovery topologies, ontology languages, and semantic query languages.

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    Reen-Cheng Wang & Ruay-Shiung Chang

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taitung University, Taitung, Taiwan, R.O.C

    Yao-Chung Chang

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Wang, RC., Chang, YC. & Chang, RS. A semantic service discovery approach for ubiquitous computing. J Intell Manuf 20, 327–335 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-008-0213-2

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