Jingshan Huang, Jiangbo Dang, Michael N. Huhns and Yongzhen Shao
The purpose of this paper is to present 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.