Models for Service and Resource Discovery in Pervasive Computing
Mehdi Khouja, Carlos Juiz, Ramón Puigjaner, Farouk Kamoun · 2011
The omnipresence of mobile and embedded devices in various daily environments such as hospitals, schools, airports, etc aims to make people’s lives easier. Thus, by being offered information and services users are experiencing a pervasive computing environment. The purpose of pervasive systems is to propose services within an heterogeneous environment and via devices with special requirements. This chapter presents the approach for service discovery (SD) in pervasive context-awareness systems. The solution adds a semantic enhancement to a pervasive system at the thinking layer. This is done by organizing contextual information within an ontology. This approach aims to group the elements of a pervasive system according to contextual criteria. Hence, group-based solution will ameliorate the service discovery process. The chapter describes service oriented architecture principles. It discusses the existing model of service discovery. The chapter lists a variety of work to do with enhancement of service discovery. Controlled Vocabulary Terms knowledge representation languages; ubiquitous computing