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Realizing networks of proactive smart products

Authors:

Mathieu d'Aquin,

Andriy Nikolov,

Keerthi ThomasAuthors Info & Claims

EKAW'12: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

Pages 337 - 352

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33876-2_30

Published: 08 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

The sheer complexity and number of functionalities embedded in many everyday devices already exceed the ability of most users to learn how to use them effectively. An approach to tackle this problem is to introduce 'smart' capabilities in technical products, to enable them to proactively assist and co-operate with humans and other products. In this paper we provide an overview of our approach to realizing networks of proactive and co-operating smart products, starting from the requirements imposed by real-world scenarios. In particular, we present an ontology-based approach to modeling proactive problem solving, which builds on and extends earlier work in the knowledge acquisition community on problem solving methods. We then move on to the technical design aspects of our work and illustrate the solutions, to do with semantic data management and co-operative problem solving, which are needed to realize our functional architecture for proactive problem solving in concrete networks of physical and resource-constrained devices. Finally, we evaluate our solution by showing that it satisfies the quality attributes and architectural design patterns, which are desirable in collaborative multi-agents systems.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3148011.3148014

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EKAW'12: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

October 2012

449 pages

ISBN:9783642338755

Editors:
Annette Teije
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
,
Johanna Völker
Institute of Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Mannheim, Amsterdam, Germany
,
Siegfried Handschuh
Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Institute of Computer Science and Business Informatics, University of Mannheim, Amsterdam, Germany
,
Mathieu d'Acquin
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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Open PHACTS: Open Pharmacological Space
NUIG: NUI Galway
LOD2: Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data, FP7 Research Project, National University of Ireland

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Tiddi IBastianelli EBardaro Gd'Aquin MMotta E(2017)An ontology-based approach to improve the accessibility of ROS-based robotic systemsProceedings of the 9th Knowledge Capture Conference10.1145/3148011.3148014(1-8)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2017
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