SmartProducts Ontologies
The SmartProducts network of ontologies describes the domain entities relevant for smart products. Concepts defined in these ontologies are used for reasoning and serve as input and output roles for tasks and problem solving methods. In order to support the smart products vision, the ontologies capture information about the following domains:
- Products. The product model describes not only the capabilities of the specific product but also auxiliary information such as its assembly parts. In many cases, an object can play a role of a single smart product in some ambiances while itself being an ambiance including many smart components. For instance, a car can be perceived as a smart product with a single external interface in a service shop. At the same time, it can contain different smart products as its components.
- User profile. Modeling the user is essential for achieving personalization of the product behaviour. User profile includes various kinds of user preferences both generic (e.g., preferred interface options) and domain-specific (e.g., preferred food types and dietary constraints).
- Context. There are several types of information which constitute relevant context for a smart product. Low-level context data includes directly available facts about the state of the environment and the product itself (e.g., sensor data). This low-level context data is aggregated to provide abstracted situational context. Finally, relevant tasks published within the ambiance constitute the third component of the context knowledge.
The approach based on the use of ontologies defined using standard Semantic Web languages (OWL and RDF) provides two major advantages:
- The possibility to define common generic core models which can be reused across domains and extended for specific scenarios with domain-related concepts.
- The possibility to integrate publicly available relevant semantic data published on the Web and use it for reasoning.
Developers: Enrico Motta, Andriy Nikolov, Miriam Fernandez, Vanessa Lopez
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Current version is available on http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/smartproducts/ontologies/.
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