SOUPA: standard ontology for ubiquitous and pervasive applications

Author

Chen, Harry ; Perich, Filip ; Finin, Tim ; Joshi, Anupam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2004

Firstpage

258

Lastpage

267

Abstract

We describe a shared ontology called SOUPA - standard ontology for ubiquitous and pervasive applications. SOUPA is designed to model and support pervasive computing applications. This ontology is expressed using the Web ontology language OWL and includes modular component vocabularies to represent intelligent agents with associated beliefs, desires, and intentions, time, space, events, user profiles, actions, and policies for security and privacy. We discuss how SOUPA can be extended and used to support the applications of CoBrA, a broker-centric agent architecture for building smart meeting rooms, and MoGATU, a peer-to-peer data management for pervasive environments.

Keywords

Internet; multi-agent systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); peer-to-peer computing; ubiquitous computing; OWL; SOUPA; Web ontology language; broker-centric agent architecture; intelligent agents; modular component vocabularies; peer-to-peer data management; pervasive applications; standard ontology; ubiquitous applications; Buildings; Data security; Environmental management; Intelligent agent; OWL; Ontologies; Peer to peer computing; Pervasive computing; Privacy; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, 2004. MOBIQUITOUS 2004. The First Annual International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2208-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOBIQ.2004.1331732

Filename

1331732