Conceptual Situation Spaces for Semantic Situation-Driven Processes

Context-awareness is a highly desired feature across several application domains. Semantic Web Services (SWS) technologies address context-adaptation by enabling the automatic discovery of distributed Web services for a given task based on comprehensive semantic representations. Whereas SWS technology supports the allocation of resources based on semantics, it does not entail the discovery of appropriate SWS representations for a given situation. Describing the complex notion of a situation in all its facets through symbolic SWS representation facilities is a costly task which may never lead to semantic completeness and introduces ambiguity issues. Moreover, even though not any real-world situation completely equals another, it has to be matched to a finite set of parameter descriptions within SWS representations to enable context-adaptability. To overcome these issues, we propose Conceptual Situation Spaces (CSS) to facilitate the description of situation characteristics as members in...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ESWS
• Authors: Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue
• Keywords: ESWS 2008, Internet Technology, Real-world Situation, Situation Characteristics, Sws Representations