Ontology alignment as a basis for mobile service integration and invocation

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present ontology alignment as a basis for mobile service integration and invocation.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper presents an automated schema‐based approach to align the ontologies from interacting devices as a basis for mobile service invocation. When the ontologies are ambiguous about the services provided, compatibility vectors are introduced as a means of maintaining ontology quality and deciding which service to choose to reduce the ambiguity.

Findings

Both precision and recall measurements are applied in the evaluation of the alignment approach, with promising results. In addition, for the compatibility vector system, it is not only proved theoretically that the approach is both precise and efficient, but it also shows promising results experimentally.

Originality/value

In cases where sufficient resources are not available and only a certain number of mobile devices can be chosen for interaction, this approach increases the efficiency by choosing suitable mobile device(s).

Research limitations/implications

This current approach makes use of a center ontology, but introduces the problem of how to handle the vulnerability issue inherent in this centralized solution. To analyze and solve this problem is a potential research direction.

Citation

Huang, J., Dang, J., Huhns, M.N. and Shao, Y. (2007), "Ontology alignment as a basis for mobile service integration and invocation", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 138-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/17427370710847282