RFID meets bluetooth in a semantic based u-commerce environment

We present a novel resource discovery framework for u-commerce. Both the original RFID data exchange protocol and the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol have been extended in order to enable support for the semantic annotation of products and goods. Given a request, the approach we propose allows an enhanced discovery process exploiting the semantics of resource descriptions available in a u-marketplace. The enhancement is backward compatible with both the original discovery protocols, thus allowing the smooth coexistence of the resource discovery and/or identification approaches. We present and motivate our approach in an innovative u-commerce framework, and show its benefits. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Miscellaneous; E.2 [Data Storage Representations]: [object representation] General Terms Algorithms, Standardization Keywords RFID, Bluetooth, Semantic Web, Matchmaking

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ACMICEC
• Authors: Michele Ruta, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Giacomo Piscitelli, Floriano Scioscia
• Keywords: ACMICEC 2007, Discovery Protocols, ECommerce, Resource Discovery, Resource Discovery Framework