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Semantic Description and Matching of Services for Pervasive Environments


PhD Abstract

With the evolution of the World Wide Web and the advancement of the electronic world, the diversity of available services is increasing rapidly. This raises new demands for the efficient discovery and location of heterogeneous services and resources in dynamically changing environments. The traditional approaches for service discovery such as UDDI, Salutation, SLP etc. characterise the services by using predefined service categories and fixed attribute value pairs and the matching techniques in these approaches are limited to syntactic comparisons based on attributes or interfaces. More recently with the popularity of Semantic Web technologies, there has been an increased interest in the application of reasoning mechanisms to support discovery and matching...


The full abstract can be found in the thesis.

Publications generated as part of her PhD

2010

Bandara, A., Payne, T., De Roure, D., Gibbins, N. and Lewis, T. (2010) A pragmatic approach for the semantic description and matching of pervasive resources. International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communication, 6 (1).

2008

Bandara, A., Payne, T., De Roure, D., Gibbins, N. and Lewis, T. (2008) A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources. In: 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2008).

Bandara, A., Payne, T., Roure, D. D., Gibbins, N. and Lewis, T. (2008) Semantic Resource Matching for Pervasive Environments: The Approach and its Evaluation. Technical Report ECSTR-IAM08-001, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Bandara, A. (2008) Semantic Description and Matching of Services for Pervasive Environments. PhD thesis, University of Southampton.

2007

Bandara, A., Payne, T., De Roure, D. and Lewis, T. (2007) A Semantic Approach for Description and Ranked Matching of Services in Pervasive Environments. In: Applications of Semantic Technologies 2007, 25/09/2007, Germany.

Bandara, A., Payne, T., De Roure, D. and Lewis, T. (2007) A Semantic Approach for Service Matching in Pervasive Environments. Technical Report ECSTR-IAM07-006, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Bandara, A., Payne, T., De Roure, D. and Lewis, T. (2007) A Semantic Framework for Priority-based Service Matching in Pervasive Environments. In: 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Systems, November, 2007, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. (In Press)

2004

Bandara, A., Payne, T. R., de Roure, D. and Clemo, G. (2004) An Ontological Framework for Semantic Description of Devices. In: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Hiroshima, Japan.