Framework for Smart Space Application Development

Interoperability Work Package participated in the International Workshop on Semantic Interoperability (IWSI 2011), presenting the paper "Framework for Smart Space Application Development" by Andre Kaustell, M. Mohsin Saleemi, Thomas Rosqvist, Juuso Jokiniemi, Johan Lilius and Ivan Porres.

The smart space concept envisions interoperability for creating multi-domain inter-device service mashups, and innovative applications. The paper presents an approach to create an abstraction layer and appropriate tools for rapid application development for the low-end devices that run agents to access a smart space. The authors present their proposed framework, describe the overall process for application development and explore the features of a real-world implementation. They describe a case study implementation to illustrate the functionality of the proposed framework. The case study shows that interoperability can be realized by the agents that describe information about themselves using some common ontology.