Semantic based collaborative P2P in ubiquitous computing

Abstract

We present a collaborative environment for semantic-enabled mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, laptops) in peer to peer scenarios. Within the environment, resource discovery is performed exploiting technologies and techniques for Knowledge Representation originally developed for the Semantic Web, which have been adapted to cope with the highly flexible structure of ad-hoc networks in ubiquitous computing. The approach exploits the standard Bluetooth stack, using the original UUID payload, to carry semantically annotated data. The framework is motivated and presented in a museum case study.