Semantic technologies and ontology matching for interoperability inside and across buildings

Jérôme Euzenat (1)

1 EXMO - Computer mediated exchange of structured knowledge

There are many experiments with buildings that communicate information to and react to instructions from inhabiting systems. Fortunately, the life of people does not stop at the door of those buildings. It is thus very important that from one building to another, from a building to its outside, and from a building considered as a whole to specific rooms, continuity in the perceived information and potential actions be ensured. One way to achieve this would be by standardising representation vocabularies that any initiative should follow. But, at such an early stage, this would be an obstacle to innovation, because experimenters do not know yet what is needed in their context. We advocate that semantic technologies, in addition to be already recognised as a key component in communicating building platforms, are adequate tools for ensuring interoperability between building settings. For that purpose, we first present how these technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Alignment) can be used within ambient intelligent applications. Then, we review several solutions for ensuring interoperability between heterogeneous building settings, in particular through online embedded matching, alignment servers or collaborative matching. We describe the state of the art in ontology matching and how it can be used for providing interoperability between semantic descriptions.

Mots clés: Ontology matching; Ontology alignment; Alignment server; Context-based matching; Content-based matching; Context representation; Query mediation

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Web

Jérôme Euzenat. Semantic technologies and ontology matching for interoperability inside and across buildings. Proc. 2nd CIB workshop on eeBuildings data models, Oct 2011, Sophia-Antipolis, France. pp.22-34. ⟨hal-00781142⟩