A Core Ontological Model for Semantic Sensor Web Infrastructures

Raúl García-Castro, Oscar Corcho and Chris Hill
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Raúl García-Castro: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Oscar Corcho: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Chris Hill: University of Southampton, UK

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 2012, vol. 8, issue 1, 22-42

Abstract: Semantic Sensor Web infrastructures use ontology-based models to represent the data that they manage; however, up to now, these ontological models do not allow representing all the characteristics of distributed, heterogeneous, and web-accessible sensor data. This paper describes a core ontological model for Semantic Sensor Web infrastructures that covers these characteristics and that has been built with a focus on reusability. This ontological model is composed of different modules that deal, on the one hand, with infrastructure data and, on the other hand, with data from a specific domain, that is, the coastal flood emergency planning domain. The paper also presents a set of guidelines, followed during the ontological model development, to satisfy a common set of requirements related to modelling domain-specific features of interest and properties. In addition, the paper includes the results obtained after an exhaustive evaluation of the developed ontologies along different aspects (i.e., vocabulary, syntax, structure, semantics, representation, and context).

Date: 2012
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