Predicting how ontologies for the semantic web will evolve
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Semantic B2B integration: issues in ontology-based approaches
ACM SIGMOD Record
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Towards the Technology Neutral Modeling of Management Components
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues
VLDB '93 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities
ISWC '02 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web
Representing and reasoning about semantic conflicts in heterogeneous information systems
Representing and reasoning about semantic conflicts in heterogeneous information systems
Middleware for User Controlled Environments
PERCOMW '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
A Perspective on the Future of Middleware-based Software Engineering
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
IEEE Internet Computing
Service-Oriented E-Learning Platforms: From Monolithic Systems to Flexible Services
IEEE Internet Computing
Modelling and analysing interoperability in service compositions using COSMO
Enterprise Information Systems - Challenges and Solutions in Enterprise Computing - 11th International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007)
The use of capability descriptions in a wireless transducer network
The use of capability descriptions in a wireless transducer network
A survey of major challenges and future directions for next generation pervasive computing
ISCIS'06 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Computer and Information Sciences
Web services composition based on ontology and workflow
WAIM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Semantic-Based policy engineering for autonomic systems
WAC'04 Proceedings of the First international IFIP conference on Autonomic Communication
Semantics-aware services for the mobile computing environment
Architecting Dependable Systems III
Semantic interoperability for an autonomic knowledge delivery service
WAC'05 Proceedings of the Second international IFIP conference on Autonomic Communication
Towards a framework to characterize ubiquitous software projects
Information and Software Technology
Computationally Significant Semantics in Pervasive Healthcare
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
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The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these devices and associated software permeate the fabric of everyday life, a massive increase looms in the number of software developers deploying functionality into pervasive computing environments. This poses a very large interoperability problem for which solutions reliant solely on interoperability standards will not scale. An interoperability problem of a similar scale is presented by the desire for a Semantic Web supporting autonomous machine communication over the WWW. Here, solutions based on service-oriented architectures and ontologies are being actively researched, and we examine how such an approach could be used to address pervasive computing's interoperability problem. The paper outlines the potential role that semantic techniques offer in solving some key challenges, including candidate service discovery, intelligent matching, service adaptation and service composition. In particular the paper addresses the resulting requirement of semantic interoperability outlining initial results in dynamic gateway generation. In addition the paper proposes a roadmap identifying the different scenarios in which semantic techniques will contribute to the engineering and operation of pervasive computing systems.