Tools

Besides the SmartProducts platform components, we also provide tools for easing the development of smart products. All these tools operate standalone and are not part of the platform:

Components

• SP Simulator SP Simulator is a development tool, it allows the designer to simulate which knowledge would be reused in a certain context, allowing the behaviour in different hypothetical contexts to be tested in the lab prior to shipping

• SP Monitor SP Monitor is a tool for the end-user to examine the knowledge in the smart products system and directly change it if necessary

• Workflow Editor The SmartProducts Workflow Editor is a tool to enable smart products developers to create or edit process definitions, including those generated by the Workflow Extractor components.

• Workflow Information Extraction The goal of this tool is to identify the textual passages (e.g., sections, paragraphs) of individual workflows and to analyse them according to the generic workflow ontology.

• Server-Side Fusion The component receives semantically annotated information from an external source and transforms this information for integration into the knowledge base.

• Question Answering Tool TThe module will use the PowerAqua semantic question-answering system to allow a smart product to continue to search beyond locally held knowledge using the semantic web.