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Multilingual Ontology Library Generator for Smart-M3 Information Sharing Platform

Authors:
Dmitry G. Korzun
Alexandr A. Lomov
Pavel I. Vanag
Sergey I. Balandin
Jukka Honkola

Keywords: Smart spaces; Smart-M3; OWL/RDF ontology; code generator; knowledge processor; low-performance devices

Abstract:
Web Ontology Language (OWL) allows structuring smart space content in high-level terms of classes, relations between them, and their properties. Smart-M3 is an open-source platform that provides a multi-agent distributed application with a shared view of dynamic knowledge and services in ubiquitous computing environments. A Smart-M3 Semantic Information Broker (SIB) maintains its smart space in low-level terms of triples, based on Resource Description Framework (RDF). This paper describes SmartSlog, a software development tool for programming Smart-M3 agents (Knowledge Processors, KPs) that consume/produce smart space content according with its high-level ontological representation. SmartSlog applies the code generation approach. Given an OWL ontology description, SmartSlog produces the ontology library. The latter provides 1) API to access the smart space via its SIB and 2) data structures and functions to represent and maintain locally in KP code all ontology classes, relations, properties, and individuals. The developer easier constructs the KP code, thinking in high-level ontology terms instead of low-level RDF triples. SmartSlog supports generation of multilingual ontology libraries (ANSI C and C# in the current implementation). Such libraries are modest to the device capacity, portable and suitable even for small devices. The SmartSlog ontology library generation scheme, architecture, design solutions, and directions for use are the main output of this paper.

Pages: 68 to 81

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2011. Used with permission.

Publication date: April 30, 2012

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ISSN: 1942-2679