The Ubiquitous Semantic Web

The Semantic Web represents an evolution of the World Wide Web towards one of entities and their relationships, rather than pages and links. Such a progression makes it possible to represent, integrate, query and reason about structured online data. Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth of mobile computing, represented by the widespread adoption of smart phones and tablets. The versatility of such smart devices and the capabilities of semantic technologies form a great foundation for a ubiquitous Semantic Web that will contribute to further realising the true potential of both disciplines. In this paper, the authors argue for values provided by the ubiquitous Semantic Web using a mobile service discovery scenario. They also provide a brief overview of state-of-the-art research in this emerging area. Finally, the authors conclude with a summary of challenges and important research problems.

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The Ubiquitous Semantic Web

Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8751-6.ch091 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 2093-2110

Author(s):

Yuan-Fang Li ◽

Jeff Z. Pan ◽

Shonali Krishnaswamy ◽

Manfred Hauswirth ◽

Hai H. Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Service Discovery ◽

World Wide ◽

Smart Devices ◽

Mobile Service ◽

Semantic Technologies ◽

Important Research ◽

Online Data ◽

Research Problems ◽

Art Research

The Semantic Web represents an evolution of the World Wide Web towards one of entities and their relationships, rather than pages and links. Such a progression makes it possible to represent, integrate, query and reason about structured online data. Recent years have witnessed tremendous growth of mobile computing, represented by the widespread adoption of smart phones and tablets. The versatility of such smart devices and the capabilities of semantic technologies form a great foundation for a ubiquitous Semantic Web that will contribute to further realising the true potential of both disciplines. In this paper, the authors argue for values provided by the ubiquitous Semantic Web using a mobile service discovery scenario. They also provide a brief overview of state-of-the-art research in this emerging area. Finally, the authors conclude with a summary of challenges and important research problems.

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Shell midden research in Atlantic Europe: State of the art, research problems and perspectives for the future

Quaternary International ◽

10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.031 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 239 (1-2) ◽

pp. 70-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 76

Author(s):

Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti ◽

Søren H. Andersen ◽

Ana C. Araújo ◽

Catherine Dupont ◽

Nicky Milner ◽

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Keyword(s):

State Of The Art ◽

Shell Midden ◽

The Future ◽

Research Problems ◽

Art Research

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Semantic Business Process Management

Information Resources Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-965-1.ch412 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1144-1166

Author(s):

Sebastian Stein ◽

Christian Stamber ◽

Marwane El Kharbili ◽

Pawel Rubach

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Web Service ◽

Business Process ◽

Service Discovery ◽

Business Process Management ◽

Process Management ◽

Semantic Integration ◽

Semantic Technologies ◽

Semantic Web Service Discovery

The application of semantic technologies promises boosting business process management because semantic integration of business and IT is achieved. To enable the vision of semantic business process management, semantic technologies like ontologies, reasoners, and semantic Web services must be integrated in BPM tools. We extended a professional BPM tool to allow semantic business process modelling using the EPC notation. In addition, we adapted the tool’s EPC to BPEL transformation to preserve the semantic annotations. By introducing a proxy service, we are able to perform Semantic Web service discovery on a standard BPEL engine. We evaluated our approach in an empirical case study, which was replicated 13 times by 17 participants from 8 different organisations. We received valuable feedback, which is interesting for researchers and practitioners trying to bring semantic technologies to end-users with no or only limited background knowledge about semantics.

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Discovering Services in Mobile Environments

Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing - Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6178-3.ch013 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 299-329 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Salma Bradai ◽

Sofien Khemakhem ◽

Mohamed Jmaiel

Keyword(s):

Financial Management ◽

Service Discovery ◽

Medical Information ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Future Research ◽

Mobile Service ◽

Mobile Environments ◽

Service Description ◽

Resource Constrained Devices ◽

Constrained Devices

Mobile services have gained in importance for their ability to be consumed by mobile users regardless of their location. Mobile consumers are exposed to a large pool of services such as location-based applications, medical information, financial management, investments, and more. However, mobile service discovery needs further research to efficiently and effectively support mobility-related constraints such as availability, heterogeneity, and resource constrained devices. In this chapter, the authors define several criteria relating to mobile service discovery and categorize state-of-the-art service discovery approaches according to those criteria while paying particular attention to architectural choices, service description, and service discovery using semantic and reasoning techniques. The authors evaluate the approaches to identify their advantages and shortcomings and propose guidelines for future research for service discovery in mobile environments.

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Semantic Business Process Management

Semantic Enterprise Application Integration for Business Processes ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-804-8.ch011 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 228-251

Author(s):

Sebastian Stein ◽

Christian Stamber ◽

Marwane El Kharbili ◽

Pawel Rubach

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Web Service ◽

Business Process ◽

Service Discovery ◽

Business Process Management ◽

Process Management ◽

Semantic Integration ◽

Semantic Technologies ◽

Semantic Web Service Discovery

The application of semantic technologies promises boosting business process management because semantic integration of business and IT is achieved. To enable the vision of semantic business process management, semantic technologies like ontologies, reasoners, and semantic Web services must be integrated in BPM tools. We extended a professional BPM tool to allow semantic business process modelling using the EPC notation. In addition, we adapted the tool’s EPC to BPEL transformation to preserve the semantic annotations. By introducing a proxy service, we are able to perform Semantic Web service discovery on a standard BPEL engine. We evaluated our approach in an empirical case study, which was replicated 13 times by 17 participants from 8 different organisations. We received valuable feedback, which is interesting for researchers and practitioners trying to bring semantic technologies to end-users with no or only limited background knowledge about semantics.

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Semantic Web service discovery: state-of-the-art and research challenges

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing ◽

10.1007/s00779-012-0609-z ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 17 (8) ◽

pp. 1741-1752 ◽

Cited By ~ 42

Author(s):

Le Duy Ngan ◽

Rajaraman Kanagasabai

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Web Service ◽

Service Discovery ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Semantic Web Service ◽

Web Service Discovery ◽

Research Challenges ◽

Semantic Web Service Discovery

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Development of the Jewish religious movement "Khabad" in Ukraine in the 20's of the twentieth century

Ukrainian Religious Studies ◽

10.32420/2001.18.1149 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 85-90

Author(s):

O. V. Kozerod

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Religious Movement ◽

Important Research ◽

The World ◽

Research Problems

The development of the Jewish religious movement "Khabad" and its organizations in the first quarter of the twentieth century - one of the important research problems, which is still practically not considered in the domestic Judaica. At the same time, this problem is relevant in connection with the fact that the religious movement "Khabad" during the twentieth century became the most widespread and influential area of Judaism in Ukraine and throughout the world.

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