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Hybrid service matchmaking in ambient assisted living environments based on context-aware service modeling

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Ambient assisted living (AAL) environments are augmented with sensing and communication technologies to support elderly people with personalized, adaptive and anticipatory requirements. A plethora of heterogeneous devices and services appear and disappear, which expose different behavior with the changing contexts in these environments. Therefore, a service matchmaking mechanism that attempts to identify relevant services in order to fulfill the user needs, has to deal with the heterogeneity of devices and services along with their dynamic behavior. Existing service specifications, such as semantic web services, are often used to abstract the environment’s functionalities and the user tasks without incorporating context-aware properties, which makes them unsuitable for service matchmaking in pervasive and ambient environment. To deal with these issues, we introduce a contExt Aware web Service dEscription Language (wEASEL) that is an abstract service model to represent services and user tasks in AAL environments. Also, we present a set of wEASEL-based service matching algorithms and evaluate them for their suitability. The proposed service matchmaking mechanism can incorporate services that are available in local AAL environment as well as in the cloud computing marketplace.

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  1. Semantic Markup for Web Services (OWL-S): http://www.w3.org/Submission/OWL-S/

  2. Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO): http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSMO/

  3. Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL): http://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/

  4. Rule Markup Language (RuleML): http://ruleml.org/

  5. Semantic Web Services Framework (SWSF): http://www.w3.org/Submission/SWSF/

  6. Semantic Annotation for WSDL and XML Schema (SAWSDL): http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/sawsdl/

  7. The word Resource has been shortened to Rsc in order to save space

  8. http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/owls-tc/

  9. Available at http://tinyurl.com/wEASEL-site

  10. http://projects.semwebcentral.org/projects/sme2/

  11. In IR, precision is defined the proportion of retrieved material that is actually relevant. On the other hand, the recall of the system is the proportion of relevant material actually retrieved in answer to a search request [12].

  12. Precision macro-averaging refers to the mean precision values for answer sets retrieved by the matchmaker for all queries in the test collection at specific recall values.

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The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this work through the research group Project No. RGP-VPP-049.

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  1. IK4-IKERLAN, Paseo J.M. Arizmendiarrieta, 20500, Arrasate, Gipuzkoa, Spain

    Aitor Urbieta & Jorge Parra

  2. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG, UK

    Alejandra González-Beltrán

  3. DRIM Research Group, LIRIS, INSA de Lyon, 20 Avenue Albert Einstein, 69621, Villeurbanne, France

    Sonia Ben Mokhtar

  4. Software Engineering Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11543, Saudi Arabia

    M. Anwar Hossain & Abdulhameed Alelaiwi

  5. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Licia Capra

  6. Intelligent Environments - DeustoTech, University of Deusto, Av. de las Universidades, 24, 48007, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain

    Juan Ignacio Vázquez

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Urbieta, A., González-Beltrán, A., Ben Mokhtar, S. et al. Hybrid service matchmaking in ambient assisted living environments based on context-aware service modeling. Cluster Comput 18, 1171–1188 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-015-0469-1

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