Towards Semantic-based Service Discovery on Tiny Mobile Devices

The vision of a mobile Web in which the computing environment will be composed of various devices that are carried by different users as they go through their daily routine might soon become a reality. In this context, Web services and the Semantic Web are already recognized as important building blocks. On the other hand, so far only little work has been done to support the discovery and selection of semantically enriched Web services on mobile terminals. In this paper we present a graphical toolbox for preference-based service discovery on tiny mobile devices. Our prototypical toolbox is developed as an extension of the Protéegé OWL plugin and consists of a component called MobiOnt responsible for service matchmaking and preference relaxation together with an emulator for different mobile devices called MobiXpl. Our work aims to serve as an open platform in order to gain experiences with different discovery strategies as well as mobile end-user interfaces.

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@inproceedings{wagner_et_al:_MobiOnt, author = {Matthias Wagner and Thorsten Liebig and Olaf Noppens and Steffen Balzer and Wolfgang Kellerer}, title = {{Towards Semantic-based Service Discovery on Tiny Mobile Devices}}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Web Technology for Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications}, year = 2004, pages = {90--101}, address = {Hiroshima, Japan}, month = {Novemer}, }