Modeling the Web of Things from an IR approach
Héctor Cristyan, Manta Caro, Juan Manuel Fernández-Luna · 2014
Internet and Web technologies have evolved remarkably from their conceptualization. Nowadays, the origin of two novel paradigms have been triggered by the possibility of interconnecting not only traditional devices, smart phones, and wearable computing but also any object in the real world, and publishing Web-based services with dynamic content and data in real time. They are called the Internet and the Web of Things, respectively. The emergence of such paradigms implies a redenition of the systems which they interact with, such as Information Retrieval systems. Thereby, it is essential to develop abstract models of Web representation, and simulation in order to establish new approaches in Information Retrieval for the Web of Things. A proposal for modeling the Web of Things based on a structured XML representation is described in this paper. This model has been designed with exibility and modularity to allow the representation of multiple scenarios, being the conceptual source for future IR Systems development.