scholarly journals Semantic Interoperability in Heterogeneous IoT Infrastructure for Healthcare

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohail Jabbar ◽  
Farhan Ullah ◽  
Shehzad Khalid ◽  
Murad Khan ◽  
Kijun Han

Interoperability remains a significant burden to the developers of Internet of Things’ Systems. This is due to the fact that the IoT devices are highly heterogeneous in terms of underlying communication protocols, data formats, and technologies. Secondly due to lack of worldwide acceptable standards, interoperability tools remain limited. In this paper, we proposed an IoT based Semantic Interoperability Model (IoT-SIM) to provide Semantic Interoperability among heterogeneous IoT devices in healthcare domain. Physicians communicate their patients with heterogeneous IoT devices to monitor their current health status. Information between physician and patient is semantically annotated and communicated in a meaningful way. A lightweight model for semantic annotation of data using heterogeneous devices in IoT is proposed to provide annotations for data. Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a semantic web framework that is used to relate things using triples to make it semantically meaningful. RDF annotated patients’ data has made it semantically interoperable. SPARQL query is used to extract records from RDF graph. For simulation of system, we used Tableau, Gruff-6.2.0, and Mysql tools.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuda Munarko ◽  
Dewan M. Sarwar ◽  
Koray Atalag ◽  
David P. Nickerson

AbstractMotivationSemantic annotation is a crucial step to assure reusability and reproducibility of biosimulation models in biology and physiology. For this purpose, the COmputational Modeling in BIology NEtwork (COMBINE) community recommend the use of the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The RDF implementation provides the flexibility of model entity searching (e.g. flux of sodium across apical plasma membrane) by utilising SPARQL. However, the rigidity and complexity of SPARQL syntax and the nature of semantic annotation which is not merely as a simple triple yet forming a tree-like structure may cause a difficulty. Therefore, the availability of an interface to convert a natural language query to SPARQL is beneficial.ResultsWe propose NLIMED, a natural language query to SPARQL interface to retrieve model entities from biosimulation models. Our interface can be applied to various repositories utilising RDF such as the PMR and Biomodels. We evaluate our interface by collecting RDF in the biosimulation models coded using CellML in PMR. First, we extract RDF as a tree structure and then store each subtree of a model entity as a modified triple of a model entity name, path, and class ontology into the RDF Graph Index. We also extract class ontology’s textual metadata from the BioPortal and CellML and manage it in the Text Feature Index. With the Text Feature Index, we annotate phrases resulted by the NLQ Parser (Stanford parser or NLTK parser) into class ontologies. Finally, the detected class ontologies then are composed as SPARQL by incorporating the RDF Graph Index. Our annotator performance is far more powerful compared to the available service provided by BioPortal with F-measure of 0.756 and our SPARQL composer can find all possible SPARQL in the collection based on the annotation results. Currently, we already implement our interface in Epithelial Modelling Platform tool.Availabilityhttps://github.com/napakalas/NLIMED


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ismail Nadim ◽  
Yassine El Ghayam ◽  
Abdelalim Sadiq

The web of things (WoT) improves syntactic interoperability between internet of things (IoT) devices by leveraging web standards. However, the lack of a unified WoT data model remains a challenge for the semantic interoperability. Fortunately, semantic web technologies are taking this challenge over by offering numerous semantic vocabularies like the semantic sensor networks (SSN) ontology. Although it enables the semantic interoperability between heterogeneous devices, the manual annotation hinders the scalability of the WoT. As a result, the automation of the semantic annotation of WoT devices becomes a prior issue for researchers. This paper proposes a method to improve the semi-automatic semantic annotation of web of things (WoT) using the entity linking task and the well-known ontologies, mainly the SSN.


Author(s):  
Kamalendu Pal

Many industries prefer worldwide business operations due to the economic advantage of globalization on product design and development. These industries increasingly operate globalized multi-tier supply chains and deliver products and services all over the world. This global approach produces huge amounts of heterogeneous data residing at various business operations, and the integration of these data plays an important role. Integrating data from multiple heterogeneous sources need to deal with different data models, database schema, and query languages. This chapter presents a semantic web technology-based data integration framework that uses relational databases and XML data with the help of ontology. To model different source schemas, this chapter proposes a method based on the resource description framework (RDF) graph patterns and query rewriting techniques. The semantic translation between the source schema and RDF ontology is described using query and transformational language SPARQL.


2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1065-1082
Author(s):  
Luyi Bai ◽  
Nan Li ◽  
Huilei Bai

With the growing importance of the fuzzy spatiotemporal data in information application, there is an increasing need for researching on the integration method of multi-source heterogeneous fuzzy spatiotemporal data. In this paper, we first propose a fuzzy spatiotemporal RDF graph model based on RDF (Resource Description Framework) that proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to represent data in triples (subject, predicate, object). Secondly, we analyze and classify the related heterogeneous problems of multi-source heterogeneous fuzzy spatiotemporal data, and use the fuzzy spatiotemporal RDF graph model to define the corresponding rules to solve these heterogeneous problems. In addition, based on the characteristics of RDF triples, we analyze the heterogeneous problem of multi-source heterogeneous fuzzy spatiotemporal data integration in RDF triples, and provide the integration methods FRDFG in this paper. Finally, we report our experiments results to validate our approach and show its significant superiority.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Martens ◽  
Chris Evelo ◽  
Egon Willighagen

<div>The AOP-Wiki is the main environment for the development and storage of Adverse Outcome Pathways. These Adverse Outcome Pathways describe mechanistic information about toxicodynamic processes and can be used to develop effective risk assessment strategies. However, it is challenging to automatically and systematically parse, filter, and use its contents. We explored solutions to better structure the AOP-Wiki content and to link it with chemical and biological resources. Together this allows more detailed exploration which can be automated.</div><div><br></div><div>We converted the complete AOP-Wiki content into Resource Description Framework. We used over twenty ontologies for the semantic annotation of property-object relations, including the ChemInformatics Ontology, Dublin Core, and the Adverse Outcome Pathway Ontology. The latter was used over 8,000 times. Furthermore, over 3,500 link-outs were added to twelve chemical databases and over 6,500 link-outs to four gene and protein databases. </div><div><br></div><div>SPARQL queries can be used against the Resource Description Framework to answer biological and toxicological questions, such as listing measurement methods for all Key Events leading to an Adverse Outcome of interest. The full power that the use of this new resource provides becomes apparent when combining the content with external databases using federated queries. For example, we can link genes related to Key Events with molecular pathway on WikiPathways in which they occur and find all Adverse Outcome Pathways caused by stressors that are part of a particular chemical group. Overall, the AOP-Wiki Resource Description Framework allows new ways to explore the rapidly growing Adverse Outcome Pathway knowledge and makes the integration of this database in automated workflows possible.</div>


Author(s):  
Leila Zemmouchi-Ghomari

The data on the web is heterogeneous and distributed, which makes its integration a sine qua non-condition for its effective exploitation within the context of the semantic web or the so-called web of data. A promising solution for web data integration is the linked data initiative, which is based on four principles that aim to standardize the publication of structured data on the web. The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the essential aspects of this fairly recent and exciting field, including the model of linked data: resource description framework (RDF), its query language: simple protocol, and the RDF query language (SPARQL), the available means of publication and consumption of linked data, and the existing applications and the issues not yet addressed in research.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Wang ◽  
Lei Zou ◽  
Dongyan Zhao

Abstract The Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) query language allows users to issue a structural query over a resource description framework (RDF) graph. However, the lack of a spatiotemporal query language limits the usage of RDF data in spatiotemporal-oriented applications. As the spatiotemporal information continuously increases in RDF data, it is necessary to design an effective and efficient spatiotemporal RDF data management system. In this paper, we formally define the spatiotemporal information-integrated RDF data, introduce a spatiotemporal query language that extends the SPARQL language with spatiotemporal assertions to query spatiotemporal information-integrated RDF data, and design a novel index and the corresponding query algorithm. The experimental results on a large, real RDF graph integrating spatial and temporal information (> 180 million triples) confirm the superiority of our approach. In contrast to its competitors, gst-store outperforms by more than 20%-30% in most cases.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Martens ◽  
Chris Evelo ◽  
Egon Willighagen

<div>The AOP-Wiki is the main environment for the development and storage of Adverse Outcome Pathways. These Adverse Outcome Pathways describe mechanistic information about toxicodynamic processes and can be used to develop effective risk assessment strategies. However, it is challenging to automatically and systematically parse, filter, and use its contents. We explored solutions to better structure the AOP-Wiki content and to link it with chemical and biological resources. Together this allows more detailed exploration which can be automated.</div><div><br></div><div>We converted the complete AOP-Wiki content into Resource Description Framework. We used over twenty ontologies for the semantic annotation of property-object relations, including the ChemInformatics Ontology, Dublin Core, and the Adverse Outcome Pathway Ontology. The latter was used over 8,000 times. Furthermore, over 3,500 link-outs were added to twelve chemical databases and over 6,500 link-outs to four gene and protein databases. </div><div><br></div><div>SPARQL queries can be used against the Resource Description Framework to answer biological and toxicological questions, such as listing measurement methods for all Key Events leading to an Adverse Outcome of interest. The full power that the use of this new resource provides becomes apparent when combining the content with external databases using federated queries. For example, we can link genes related to Key Events with molecular pathway on WikiPathways in which they occur and find all Adverse Outcome Pathways caused by stressors that are part of a particular chemical group. Overall, the AOP-Wiki Resource Description Framework allows new ways to explore the rapidly growing Adverse Outcome Pathway knowledge and makes the integration of this database in automated workflows possible.</div>


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 2571
Author(s):  
Salvatore Cavalieri

In the era of Industry 4.0, pervasive adoption of communication technologies based on the Internet of Things represents a very strong requirement in several domains. In the smart grid domain, there is the need to overcome one of the main limitations of the current electric grid, allowing the use of heterogeneous devices capable of measuring, monitoring and exchanging information about grid components. For this reason, current literature often presents research activities about enabling internet of things (IoT) in smart grids; in particular, several proposals aim to realize interworking between IoT and smart grid communication standards, allowing exchange of information between IoT devices and the electrical grid components. Semantic interoperability should be achieved in an interworking solution in order to provide a common meaning of the data exchanged by heterogeneous devices, even if they belong to different domains. Until now, semantic interoperability remains an open challenge in the smart grid field. The paper aims to propose a novel solution of interworking between two of the most used communication systems in smart grids and IoT domains, i.e., IEC 61850 and oneM2M, respectively. A semantic interoperability solution is also proposed to be used in the interworking scheme here presented.


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